Engle-Warnick, Jim; Escobal, Javier; Laszlo, Sonia - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2007
The lack of adoption of new farming technologies despite known benefis is a well-documented phenomenon in development economics. In addition to a number of market constraints, risk aversion predominates the discussion of behavioral determinants of technology adoption. We hypothesize that...