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Replication Data for: Technological Innovations, Downside Risk, and the Modernization of Agriculture

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: Technological Innovations, Downside Risk, and the Modernization of Agriculture
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/W97NZB
 
Creator Emerick, Kyle
de Janvry, Alain
Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Dar, Manzoor H.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We use a randomized experiment in India to show that improved technology enhances agricultural productivity by crowding in modern inputs and cultivation practices. Specifically, we show that a new rice variety that reduces downside risk by providing flood tolerance has positive effects on adoption of a more labor-intensive planting method, area cultivated, fertilizer usage, and credit utilization. We find that a large share of the expected gains from the technology comes from crowding in of other investments. Therefore, improved technologies that reduce risk by protecting production in bad years have the potential to increase agricultural productivity in normal years.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Parrado, Andres