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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w29518
来源ID	Working Paper 29518
	Harvesting the Rain: The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel
	Jenny C. Aker; Kelsey Jack
发表日期	2021-11-29
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	Many agricultural and environmental technologies require large upfront investments in exchange for longer-term benefits. This time profile of costs and benefits makes adoption particularly sensitive to liquidity and credit constraints, which are prevalent in low-income settings. We test the importance of these barriers to the adoption of an agricultural technique that helps reduce land degradation and restore soil fertility in Niger. We find little evidence that liquidity or credit constraints deter adoption: instead, providing farmers with training increases the share of adopters by over 90 percentage points, whereas adding conditional or unconditional cash transfers has no additional effect. Adoption increases agricultural output, reduces land turnover and leads to adoption spillovers up to three years after treatment. These results imply that training can be a cost-effective and scalable means of promoting the adoption of profitable technologies.
主题	Development and Growth ; Development ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w29518
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/587192
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jenny C. Aker,Kelsey Jack. Harvesting the Rain: The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel. 2021.

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