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The risk of losing income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing a … baseline of high levels of risk aversion, we still found that farmers more frequently chose the safe options when the setting … is characterized by unknown risk (that is, poor or unreliable risk information). Second, we found that farmers, to a …
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The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly … levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …, climatic event, we expected to observe, and found high levels of risk aversion, but we do observe farmers making trade …
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The risk of loses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly … levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …, climatic event, we expected to observe, and found high levels of risk aversion, but we do observe farmers making trade offs …
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The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly … levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …, climatic event, we expected to observe, and found high levels of risk aversion, but we do observe farmers making trade …
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among farmers strongly facilitates coordination. -- Risk Aversion ; Ambiguity Aversion ; Technology Adoption ; Climate …The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly … levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …
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The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly … levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …, climatic event, we expected to observe, and found high levels of risk aversion, but we do observe farmers making trade …
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We study how aversion to risk and ambiguity affects the adoption of new technologies by Ghanaian smallholder … aquafarmers. We conduct a set of field experiments designed to elicit farmers' risk and ambiguity preferences and combine it with … importance of distinguishing between risk and ambiguity in investigating technology adoption decisions of small-holder farmers in …
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We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to …) and are less likely to save money. Experimental measures for risk and ambiguity attitudes are only weak predictors of …
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The use of climate information in economic activities, typically provided by climate services, may serve as a possible adaptation strategy to changing climate conditions. The present paper analyzes the value of climate services aimed at improving agricultural productivity through a reduction in...
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We study how aversion to risk and ambiguity affects the adoption of new technologies by Ghanaian smallholder … aquafarmers. We conduct a set of field experiments designed to elicit farmers' risk and ambiguity preferences and combine it with … importance of distinguishing between risk and ambiguity in investigating technology adoption decisions of small-holder farmers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388813