Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency

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dc.creatorBowen, Derick
dc.creatorAli, Daniel Ayalew
dc.creatorDeininger, Klaus
dc.date2017-02-08T21:03:35Z
dc.date2017-02-08T21:03:35Z
dc.date2017-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:43:48Z
dc.descriptionAlthough a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labor market outcomes, evidence of their impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and optimism) significantly affect simple adoption decisions, returns from adoption, and technical efficiency in rice production, and that the size of the estimated impacts exceeds that of traditional human capital measures. Greater focus on personality traits relative to cognitive skills may help accelerate innovation diffusion in the short term, and help farmers to respond flexibly to new opportunities and risks in the longer term.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/727211486054089844/Personality-traits-technology-adoption-and-technical-efficiency-evidence-from-smallholder-rice-farms-in-Ghana
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/26019
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-7959
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/410022
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 7959
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectpersonality traits
dc.subjectnoncognitive skills
dc.subjecttechnology adoption
dc.subjecttechnical efficiency
dc.subjectrice farmers
dc.titlePersonality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency
dc.titleEvidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
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