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Networks, incentives and technology adoption: evidence from a randomised experiment in Uganda

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11705/
https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa009
doi:10.1093/erae/jbaa009
 
Title Networks, incentives and technology adoption: evidence from a randomised experiment in Uganda
 
Creator Shikuku, K M
Melesse, M B
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Description We use data from a randomised experiment in Uganda to examine effects of incentives
on the decision to adopt drought-tolerant maize varieties (DTMVs) and mechanisms
through which effects occur. We find that social recognition (SR) incentives to a
random subset of trained farmers – disseminating farmers (DFs) – increase knowledge
transmission from DFs to their co-villagers and change information networks of both
DFs and their neighbours. SR also increases DFs’ likelihood of adopting DTMVs.
However, the corresponding results for private material rewards are not conclusively
strong. We find no evidence that incentives for knowledge diffusion increase the
likelihood of co-villagers adopting DTMVs.
 
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Date 2020-02
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11705/1/jbaa009.pdf
Shikuku, K M and Melesse, M B (2020) Networks, incentives and technology adoption: evidence from a randomised experiment in Uganda. European Review of Agricultural Economics (TSI), 47 (5). pp. 1740-1775. ISSN 0165-1587