Seeing is believing? Evidence from an extension network experiment

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dc.creatorKondylis, Florence
dc.creatorMueller, Valerie
dc.creatorZhu, Siyao Jessica
dc.date2017-03
dc.date2024-06-21T09:24:12Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:24:12Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:28:14Z
dc.descriptionExtension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers, and from extension agents to contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other farmers in their communities. Such a modality may fail to address informational inefficiencies and accountability issues. We run a field experiment to measure the impact of augmenting the CF model with a direct CF training on the diffusion of a new technology. All villages have CFs and access the same extension network. In treatment villages, CFs additionally receive a three-day, central training on the new technology. We track information transmission through two nodes of the extension network: from extension agents to CFs, and from CFs to other farmers. Directly training CFs leads to a large, statistically significant increase in adoption among CFs. However, higher levels of CF adoption have limited impact on the behavior of other farmers.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148261
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/105358
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150151
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152076
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKondylis, Florence; Mueller, Valerie; and Zhu, Siyao Jessica. 2017. Seeing is believing? Evidence from an extension network experiment. Journal of Development Economics 125(March 2017): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.10.004
dc.subjecttechnology transfer
dc.subjectextension activities
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectcontract farming
dc.titleSeeing is believing? Evidence from an extension network experiment
dc.typeJournal Article

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