Duflo, Esther; Keniston, Daniel; Suri, Tavneet; Zipfel, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the …-step experiment of an agronomy training program among Rwandan coffee farmers, we first randomize the concentration of trainees at the … farmers. We find no evidence of social diffusion; instead, control households experienced negative spillovers in high …