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Selection and comparative advantage in technology adoption (Record no. 28926)

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control field G96125
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control field MX-TxCIM
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022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 0012-9682
022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 1468-0262 (Online)
024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA7749
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
041 0# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Geographic area code US
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Suri, T.
9 (RLIN) 14479
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Selection and comparative advantage in technology adoption
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Wiley,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Peer review
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in technology adoption for developing countries: the low adoption rates of technologies like hybrid maize that increase average farm profits dramatically. I offer a simple explanation for this: benefits and costs of technologies are heterogeneous, so that farmers with low net returns do not adopt the technology. I examine this hypothesis by estimating a correlated random coefficient model of yields and the corresponding distribution of returns to hybrid maize. This distribution indicates that the group of farmers with the highest estimated gross returns does not use hybrid, but their returns are correlated with high costs of acquiring the technology (due to poor infrastructure). Another group of farmers has lower returns and adopts, while the marginal farmers have zero returns and switch in and out of use over the sample period. Overall, adoption decisions appear to be rational and well explained by (observed and unobserved) variation in heterogeneous net benefits to the technology.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note Text in English
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Collection Reprints Collection
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Innovation adoption
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
Source of heading or term
9 (RLIN) 1160
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Technology
Miscellaneous information AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1988
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY
Title Econometrica
Related parts v. 79, no. 1, p. 159-209
Place, publisher, and date of publication United Kingdom : Wiley, 2011.
International Standard Serial Number 0012-9682
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Koha item type Article
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Date last seen Total Checkouts Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Withdrawn status Home library Current library Date acquired
07/03/2017   07/03/2017 Article Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     Reprints Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 07/03/2017

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