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    Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4669

    Networks, incentives and technology adoption: evidence from a randomised experiment in Uganda

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    • We use data from a randomised experiment in Uganda to examine effects of incentives on the decision to adopt drought-tolerant maize varieties (DTMVs) and mechanisms through which effects occur. We find that social recognition (SR) incentives to a random subset of trained farmers – disseminating farmers (DFs) – increase knowledge transmission from DFs to their co-villagers and change information networks of both DFs and their neighbours. SR also increases DFs’ likelihood of adopting DTMVs. However, the corresponding results for private material rewards are not conclusively strong. We find no evidence that incentives for knowledge diffusion increase the likelihood of co-villagers adopting DTMVs.
    • External link to download this item: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa009
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    Date
    • 2020
    Author
    • Shikuku, K.M.
    • Melesse, M.B.
    Author(s) ORCID(s)
    • Kelvin Mashisia Shikukuhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2290-074X
    Subject(s)
    • adoption; risk-mitigating technologies; Maize
    AGROVOC Keywords
    • uganda; incentives; social networks
    Type
    • Journal Article
    Publisher
    • Oxford University Press
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