We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … higher adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds and other complementary inputs, as well as higher increase in …

average, Medicaid expansion has no statistically significant effect on NICU adoption. However, we find that in geographic … NICU adoption. This holds true particularly when Medicaid payment rates are very low relative to private payment rates …. This finding is consistent with prior evidence on reduced NICU adoption from increased managed-care penetration. We …

adoption, I study a practice that generates revenue for hospitals: submitting detailed documentation about patients. After a … many doctors practice at multiple hospitals, I find that four-fifths of the dispersion in adoption reflects differences in … the ability of hospitals to extract documentation from physicians. Hospital adoption is robustly correlated with …

improvements.Consistent with learning models of the adoption decision, we find positive treatment effects on farmers' estimated … predicting persistence of impacts of temporary technology adoption subsidies, in particular due to learning effects …

China, we measure individuals’ FinTech adoption by the speed and intensity with which they adopt the new technology. Our … hypothesis is that individuals with high FinTech adoption, through repeated usages of the Alipay app, would build familiarity and …-fund investments on the FinTech platform, we find that higher FinTech adoption results in higher participation and more risk …

Local opinion leaders may play a key role in easing information frictions associated with technology adoption. This …

What determines the technology that a country adopts? While many factors affect technological adoption, the efficiency … control the cash flows of a firm plays an important role in the technology adoption decision. Can such a theory help to …

adoption across households according to income and wealth, location, gender, and other socio‐economic characteristics, as well …