Download or read book Essays on the Microeconomics of Technology Adoption with Application to Ethiopian Agriculture written by Kassahun Tadesse Melesse and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation explores the role of land reforms and agricultural extension in promoting technology adoption in the Ethiopian agricultural sector. The first two essays of the dissertation are devoted to examining the role of property rights institutions in promoting technology adoption. In the second chapter, we provide a theoretical framework which shows that an important mechanism through which improved property rights influences technology adoption is by altering the optimal contractual arrangements economic agents choose, but the magnitude of this impact depends partly on the degree of credit market imperfections prevailing in the economy. We analyze this in the agricultural sector in a developing country setting and develop a model which predicts that by reducing both tenure insecurity and transaction costs, credible land title reforms provide incentives for farmers to move towards contracts that encourage the adoption of chemical fertilizers. In the third chapter, we estimate the impact of improved land rights on farmers' choice of land and labor contracts and technology adoption using panel data from Ethiopia, which introduced legislation that gave farmers perpetual land use rights aimed at improving their tenure security. The empirical approach allows us to empirically disentangle the direct impact of improved tenure security on technology adoption, by reducing the risk of expropriation, from its indirect impact through its effect on the optimal choice of land and labor contracts. The econometric results demonstrate improved property rights in Ethiopia have their greatest effect on the adoption of chemical fertilizers by transforming the agrarian contractual structure. The fourth chapter evaluates the impact of the Ethiopian agricultural extension program in promoting the use of chemical fertilizers among farmers by employing propensity score matching and inverse probability weighting methods. These methods help us arrive at credible estimates of the impact of the Ethiopian agricultural extension program by carefully handling endogeneity problems that have bedeviled prior research aimed at estimating the impact of extension programs on technology adoption and overall farm performance in several developing economies. Our empirical results show that the Ethiopian extension program increases both the likelihood of chemical fertilizer adoption and enhances the intensity of fertilizer use by farmers, but the impact is heterogeneous across households.

Download or read book Essays on Technology Adoption in Crop Farming written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adoption Pathways for New Agricultural Technologies written by Mohammad Abdul Jabbar and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Learning and Technology Adoption written by Bruce Peter McWilliams and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consumption Risk Technology Adoption and Poverty Traps written by Stefan Dercon and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written on the determinants of input and technology adoption in agriculture, with issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability, and credit constraints receiving much attention. This paper focuses on a factor that has been less well documented-the differential ability of households to take on risky production technologies for fear of the welfare consequences if shocks result in poor harvests. Building on an explicit model, this is explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk. Controlling for unobserved household and time-varying village characteristics, it emerges that not just ex-ante credit constraints, but also the possibly low consumption outcomes when harvests fail, discourage the application of fertilizer. The lack of insurance causes inefficiency in production choices.

Download or read book Three Essays on Technology Adoption and the Roles of Off farm Labor Human Capital and Risk in Contemporary US Agriculture written by Hiroki Uematsu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Agricultural Technology Adoption Value Chain Development and Intra household Decision making written by Cansin Arslan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While considerable progress has been made over the last 30 years in poverty reduction, about ten percent of the people in the world still live in extreme poverty. It is the field of economics that formulate theories, devise methods, and make empirical analyses that inform policies and practices to reduce poverty and improve welfare in developing countries. This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of development and agricultural economics. Each essay has its own introduction, methods, results, and conclusion section. The essays share a common ground in that they are bas...

Download or read book Essays on Contracts Risk Coping and Technology Adoption in Ethiopia written by Million Tadesse and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consumption Risk Technology Adoption and Poverty Traps written by Stefan Dercon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written on the determinants of input and technology adoption in agriculture, with issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability, and credit constraints receiving much attention. This paper focuses on a factor that has been less well documented-the differential ability of households to take on risky production technologies for fear of the welfare consequences if shocks result in poor harvests. Building on an explicit model, this is explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk. Controlling for unobserved household and time-varying village characteristics, it emerges that not just ex-ante credit constraints, but also the possibly low consumption outcomes when harvests fail, discourage the application of fertilizer. The lack of insurance causes inefficiency in production choices.

Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Sustainable Agricultural Technologies in Ethiopia written by Hailemariam Teklewold Belayneh and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consumption Risk Technology Adoption and Poverty Traps written by Stefan Dercon and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written on the determinants of input and technology adoption in agriculture, with issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability, and credit constraints receiving much attention. This paper focuses on a factor that has been less well documented: the differential ability of households to take on risky production technologies for fear of the welfare consequences if shocks result in poor harvests. Building on an explicit model, this is explored in panel data for Ethiopia. Historical rainfall distributions are used to identify the counterfactual consumption risk. Controlling for unobserved household and time-varying village characteristics, it emerges that not just exante credit constraints, but also the possibly low consumption outcomes when harvests fail, discourage the application of fertiliser. The lack of insurance causes inefficiency in production choices.

Download or read book Adoption Pathways for New Agricultural Technologies written by Mohammad Abdul Jabbar and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Risk Implications of Farm Technology Adoption in the Ethiopian Highlands written by Mahmud Yesuf and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Microeconomics of Technology Adoption written by Andrew D. Foster and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Market Imperfections and Farm Technology Adoption Decisions written by Mahmud Yesuf and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Technology Adoption Seed Access Constraints and Commercialization in Ethiopia written by Solomon Asfaw and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article examines the driving forces behind farmers' decisions to adopt agricultural technologies and the causal impact of adoption on farmers' integration into output market using data obtained from a random cross-section sample of 700 farmers in Ethiopia. We estimate a Double-Hurdle model to analyze the determinants of the intensity of technology adoption conditional on overcoming seed access constraints. We estimate the impact of technology adoption on farmers' integration into output market by utilizing treatment effect model, regression based on propensity score as well as matching techniques to account for heterogeneity in the adoption decision, and for unobservable characteristics of farmers and their farm. Results show that knowledge of existing varieties, perception about the attributes of improved varieties, household wealth (livestock and land) and availability of active labor force are major determinants for adoption of improved technologies. Our results suggest that the adoption of improved agricultural technologies has a significant positive impact on farmers' integration into output market and the findings are consistent across the three models suggesting the robustness of the results. This confirms the potential direct role of technology adoption on market participation among rural households, as higher productivity from improved technology translates into higher output market integration.

Download or read book Essays on Technology Adoption and Economic Growth written by Inchul Kim and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: