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

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia (author) and Melesse, Mequanint B (author)
    Format:
    journal articles
    Publication Date:
    2020-04-20
    URL:
    https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaa009
    Published:
    England: Oxford University Press
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12736
    Journal Title:
    European Review of Agricultural Economics
    Journal Title Details:
    V. 47, N. 5
    Subject Term:
    adoption, corn, incentives, social factors, technology adoption, risk management, maize, knowledge exchange, social networking, Uganda (Africa, Eastern), quantitative content analysis, risk management strategies, knowledge diffusion, risk-mitigating technologies, social recognition, and drought-tolerant crops
    Notes:
    35 pages, 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

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