| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w27192 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 27192 |
| Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity: The Role of Mobile Phones in Agriculture | |
| Apoorv Gupta; Jacopo Ponticelli; Andrea Tesei | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-05-25 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy exploits the expansion of the mobile phone network in previously uncovered areas of rural India coupled with the availability of call centers for agricultural advice. We measure information on agricultural practices by analyzing the content of 2.5 million phone calls made by farmers to one of India's leading call centers for agricultural advice. We find that areas receiving coverage from new towers and with no language barriers between farmers and advisers answering their calls experience higher adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds and other complementary inputs, as well as higher increase in agricultural productivity. Our estimates indicate that information frictions can explain around 25 percent of the agricultural productivity gap between the most productive and the least productive areas in our sample. |
| 主题 | Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Growth and Productivity ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w27192 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584865 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Apoorv Gupta,Jacopo Ponticelli,Andrea Tesei. Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity: The Role of Mobile Phones in Agriculture. 2020. |
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