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The Diffusion Of Multiple Technologies: An Empirical Study

Stoneman, Paul; Toivanen, Otto - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 5 (1997) 1, pp. 1-17

The simultaneous diffusion of several technologies is studied. We build a modcl that encompasses recent theoretical … arguments on diffusion and cxtend these to the multipie technologies case. The model is estimated using a panel of data on UK … manufacturing industries relating to the diffusion of five technologies: Computer Numerically Controlled machine tools, Numerically …

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The Intensive Margin of Technology Adoption - Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Rural Senegal

Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

Today 2.6 billion people in developing countries rely on biomass as primary cooking fuel, with profound negative implications for their well-being. Improved biomass cooking stoves are alleged to counteract these adverse effects. This paper evaluates take-up and impacts of low-cost improved...

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Television and Contraceptive Use – Panel Evidence from Rural Indonesia

Peters, Jörg; Strupat, Christoph; Vance, Colin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

In recent years, rural electrification and access to television have spread rapidly throughout the developing world. The values and cultural norms embodied in television programming have potentially profound implications for influencing behavior, particularly as regards reproductive decisions....

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Beer, Wood, and Welfare

Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these, mostly female owned, small enterprises and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on...

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Beer, Wood, and Welfare

Peters, Jörg; Grimm, Michael - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2015

Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these micro-breweries and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on private households as well...

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On the patterns and determinants of the global diffusion of new technologies

Pulkki-Brännström, Anni-Maria; Stoneman, Paul - In: Research Policy 42 (2013) 10, pp. 1768-1779

diffusion margins – the extensive, referring to the spreading of first use across economies and the intensive, referring to the … extensive margins in global diffusion over time. Using data on steamships and the basic oxygen process for steelmaking we also … explore whether there are international spillovers in the diffusion process. We find evidence of spillovers which appear more …

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Employment, technological diffusion and oligopoly : fin. vers. received March 1985

Waterson, Michael; Stoneman, Paul - In: International journal of industrial organization 3 (1985) 3, pp. 327-344

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