Learning About a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana

By Timothy G. Conley, Christopher R. Udry. 2010

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Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Information Systems

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Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries (2016, neutral): “…in developing countries have been well-documented, and there is widespread theoretical and empirical literature identifying the determinants of agricultural technology adoption in different contexts (Foster and Rosenzweig 1995; Duflo, Kremer and Robinson 2008; Conley and Udry 2010; Suri 2011).”
Farm technology adoption in Kenya: a simultaneous estimation of inorganic fertilizer and improved maize variety adoption decisions (2014, neutral): “Using a target-input model of new technology which assumes that the best use of an input is unknown and random, Foster and Rosenzweig (1995), and Conley and Udry (2002) found similar results.”
Dial “A” for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269 (2011, neutral): “…and there is widespread theoretical and empirical literature identifying the determinants of agricultural technology adoption in different contexts (Feder, Just and Zilberman 1985, Foster and Rosenzweig 1995, Suri forthcoming, Conley and Udry 2010, Duflo, Kremer and Robinson forthcoming).”
Rural road infrastructure & agricultural production: Evidence from India (2021, background): “Munshi (2004), Bandiera and Rasul (2006) and Conley and Udry (2010) further explore the role of social learning in the diffusion of new technologies.”
Who Gets the Job Referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment (2012, neutral): “structure of insurance and learning networks (Conley and Udry, 2009; Ligon and Schechter, 2008).”
Time to Change What to Sow: Risk Preferences and Technology Adoption Decisions of Cotton Farmers in China (2013, background): “For example, in studies on social learning (Conley & Udry, 2010; Foster & Rosenzweig, 1995) and social pressure (Maertens, 2009), it remains unstated as to who the initial adopter would be in a particular social network when there is no one within the network from whom to learn.”
Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics (2015, neutral): “DeFusco (2014) and Agarwal and Qian (2014b) are two recent papers analyzing similar experiments that involve a relaxation of borrowing constraints for home owners in the first case, and an unexpected tightening in the second case.”
Just Starting Out: Learning and Equilibrium in a New Market (2018, neutral): “…literatures is largely about how consumers experiment to learn their demand for experience goods (Erdem and Keane 1996, Ackerberg 2003, Dickstein 2013) or how firms learn about their cost (Griliches 1957, Porter 1995, Benkard 2000, Conley and Udry 2010, Zhang 2010, Covert 2013, Newberry 2016).”