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CROP BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR AFRICA: WHO WILL GAIN FROM BT MAIZE IN KENYA?
Owuor, George; Smale, Melinda; De Groote, Hugo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2004
Bt maize in Kenya is promising biotechnology innovation for poor households. Econometric prediction from a trait …-based model of variety adoption indicates that the choice of host variety has equity and efficiency implications related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005806730
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387278
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The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Islam, Asad; Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves; Zhang, Xin - 2020
We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others … field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the share of treated farmers who receive better training in System of Rice … Intensification (SRI) technology have a high positive impact on the adoption rate of untreated farmers. We also find that untreated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615431
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648056
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The Value of Information in Technology Adoption
Islam, Asadul; Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves; Zhang, Xin - 2019
We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others … field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the share of treated farmers who receive better training in System of Rice … Intensification (SRI) technology have a high positive impact on the adoption rate of untreated farmers. We also find that untreated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141307
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Migration and informal insurance : evidence from a randomized controlled trial and a structural model
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - In: The review of economic studies : RES 89 (2022) 1, pp. 452-480
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799332
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The value of information in technology adoption
Islam, Asad; Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves; Zhang, Xin - 2020
We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others … field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the share of treated farmers who receive better training in System of Rice … Intensification (SRI) technology have a high positive impact on the adoption rate of untreated farmers. We also find that untreated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296838
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053181
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030472
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The value of information in technology adoption : theory and evidence from Bangladesh
Islam, Asad; Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves; Zhang, Xin - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113076