Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Maertens, Annemie
• Barrett, Christopher B.

Titel

Measuring Social Networks' Effects on Agricultural Technology Adoption

Ist Teil von

• American journal of agricultural economics, 2013-01, Vol.95 (2), p.353-359

Ort / Verlag

Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Technological improvements, perhaps especially in agriculture, drive sustainable advances in labor productivity, incomes, food security and general economic growth. But improved technologies are not adopted immediately, randomly or completely throughout a population. Any firm economic understanding of the diffusion of a new technology therefore depends on understanding the dynamic and cross-sectional patterns of technology adoption. While the noneconomic social sciences have long emphasized social networks' role in the diffusion of new technologies (Rogers 1962), economists by and large focused on access to input (including financial) and output markets, self-insurance associated with farm size and household wealth, and learning from extension services and experimentation (Feder, Just, and Zilberman 1985). Reprinted by permission of the American Agricultural Economics Association