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Social networking amid social differentiation in the adoption of improved technologies: A case study in Rajasthan, India
| العنوان: | Social networking amid social differentiation in the adoption of improved technologies: A case study in Rajasthan, India |
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| بيانات النشر: | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington, DC 2019 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Varshney, Deepak; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; Roy, Devesh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9637-1767 Joshi, Pramod Kumar; http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4795-7240 Roy, Devesh |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| وصف مادي: | 36 pages 786717 Bytes |
| مستخلص: | Non-PR IFPRI1; CRP2; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance; CRP4; IFPRI-ICAR SAR; A4NH; PIM CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) This paper evaluates the role of social networks in the adoption of mustard hybrids. The objectives of the paper are (i) to examine how the farmer’s adoption decision relates to the adoption choices of their network members particularly in case of hybrids; (ii) to test whether the lower-caste (Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe [SC/ST]) farmers relied more on social networks for information as compared to the higher-caste (non-SC/ST) farmers; and (iii) to explore whether social network effects are more pronounced when farmers interact within their caste as compared to outside the caste, the issue of homophily versus heterophily. The paper follows the model of social learning in Bandiera and Rasul (2006) extended by introducing the individual level covariates of network members. Further, we try to address endogeneity concerns by including village fixed effects and by analyzing the social network effects in a dynamic adoption framework. We establish evidence of endogenous effects in the adoption choices of hybrids i.e. more pronounced for the lower caste (schedule caste/tribe) vis-a-vis the higher caste. Further, network effects are stronger with homophily within the same caste. |
| الموضوعات: | social networks; hybrids; farm income; farmers; innovation adoption; diffusion of information; smallholders; caste systems, schedule caste; schedule tribe; homophily; agricultural technologies |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; ASIA, social networks; hybrids; farm income; farmers; innovation adoption; diffusion of information; smallholders; caste systems, schedule caste; schedule tribe; homophily; agricultural technologies, Discussion paper |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content |
| ملاحظة: | English |
| أرقام أخرى: | DFP oai:cdm15738.contentdm.oclc.org:p15738coll2/133193 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133193 10.2499/p15738coll2.133193 133193 1090690657 |
| المصدر المساهم: | INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RES INST LIBR From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsoai.on1090690657 |
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