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Keeping up with the e-Joneses : do online social networks raise social comparisons?
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2016
Online social networks, such as Facebook, disclose an unprecedented volume of personal information amplifying the occasions for social comparisons, which can be a cause of frustration. We test the hypothesis that the use of social networking sites (SNS) increases social comparisons as proxied by...
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E-participation : social capital and the Internet
Sabatini, Fabio; Sarracino, Francesco - 2014
Studies in the social capital literature have documented two stylised facts: first, a decline in measures of social participation has occurred in many OECD countries. Second, and more recently, the success of social networking sites (SNSs) has resulted in a steep rise in online social...
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Digitalization for energy access in Sub-Saharan Africa : challenges, opportunities and potential business models
Mazzoni, Davide - 2019
Innovative business models supported by digital technologies, together with the widening connectivity and data collection, are already giving a big contribution in fostering the access to electricity and clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper gives an overview on the actual state of...
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Food security and productivity impacts of technology adoption in small subsistence farmers in Bolivia
Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015
This paper presents the impact evaluation of CRIAR program, implemented in rural areas in Bolivia. The objective of CRIAR is to increase smallholders' agricultural income and food security through productivity improvements triggered by technological adoption. In this study, we use data from a...
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Productivity and the performance of agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean : from the lost decade to the commodity boom
Nin, Alejandro; Falconi, César A.; Ludena, Carlos E.; … - 2015
This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at the contribution of inputs, and total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in output per worker. A growth accounting approach that goes along the lines of neoclassical growth...
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Brazil's agricultural total factor productivity growth by farm size
Helfand, Steven M.; Magalhães, Marcelo; Rada, Nicholas E. - 2015
The role of farm size has recently come to the forefront of agricultural development debates. Agricultural development policy often focuses on small farms given evidence of their role in poverty reduction and of higher yields. Yet policy has also focused on large farms due to their share of...
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Seguridad alimentaria y productividad impactos de la adopción tecnológica en pequeños agricultores de subsistencia en Bolivia
Salazar, Lina; Aramburu, Julián; González-Flores, Mario; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486688
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Direct and spillover effects of agricultural technology adoption programs : experimental evidence from the Dominican Republic
Aramburu, Julián; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, Alessandro - 2019
income of smallholder farmers by encouraging the adoption of a technology. We exploit a two-stage randomized experiment … survey with administrative data to measure both direct and spillover effects. The sample includes 2,499 farmers, including … direct beneficiaries, indirect beneficiaries, controls, and farmers within the social network of direct beneficiaries. We …
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Junior farmer field schools, agricultural knowledge and spillover effects : quasi-experimental evidence from Northern Uganda
Bonan, Jacopo; Pagani, Laura - 2016
We analyse the impact of a junior farmer field school project in Northern Uganda on students’ agricultural knowledge and practices. We also test for the presence of intergenerational learning spillover within households. We use differences-in-differences estimators with ex-ante matching. We...
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Diffusion of innovations on community based small worlds : the role of correlation between social spheres
Tanimura, Emily - 2010
Which types of networks favor the diffusion of innovations in the sense that an innovation whose intrinsic benefits are greater than those of an established choice will be able to replace the latter when it is initially used only by a small fraction of a large population? For deterministic and...
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