Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark R.

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“…Farmers who know many adopters might, out of strategic considerations, delay their adoption to learn from the experiences of the other farmers in their network. Foster & Rosenzweig (1995) also find that farmers have the tendency to free ride on the acquired knowledge of other farmers. We test the free-riding hypothesis by entering the square term of the number of farmers known into the regression.…”

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Adoption and Impact of Hybrid Wheat in India

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“…Foster & Rosenzweig, 1995;Pomp & Burger, 1995). However, more recent adoption studies stress that farmers do not learn from all farmers in the village.…”

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“…At least in theory, this phenomenon could contribute to the energy-efficiency gap. 30 Empirical research in other domains emphasizes the prevalence of social learning and peer effects (Case and Katz 1991;Ammermueller and Pischke 2009;Duflo and Saez 2002;Foster andRosenzweig 1995, 1205-6;Emerick 2014;Conley and Udry 2010, 37-38), but there is limited evidence regarding how information spillovers affect energy-efficient technology, and-if positive spillovers exist-whether consumers respond by free-riding. The bulk of the evidence on information spillovers comes from the introduction of hybrid vehicles, drawing on both stated preference (Mau et al 2008) and revealed preference studies (Axsen, Mountain, and Jaccard 30 These spillovers are related to the effects of demand spillovers on innovation by firms, discussed above, in that they also affect product offerings.…”

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Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap

Gerarden¹,

Newell²,

Stavins³

2015

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Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and environmental damages associated with energy use, but these technologies appear not to be adopted by consumers and businesses to the degree that would apparently be justified, even on a purely financial basis. We present two complementary frameworks for understanding this so-called "energy paradox" or "energyefficiency gap." First, we build on the previous literature by dividing potential explanations for the energy-efficiency gap into three categories: market failures, behavioral anomalies, and model and measurement errors. Second, we posit that it is useful to think in terms of the fundamental elements of cost-minimizing energy-efficiency decisions. This provides a decomposition that organizes thinking around four questions. First, are product offerings and pricing economically efficient? Second, are energy operating costs inefficiently priced and/or understood? Third, are product choices costminimizing in present value terms? Fourth, do other costs inhibit more energy-efficient decisions? We review empirical evidence on these questions, with an emphasis on recent advances, and offer suggestions for future research.

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“…Although more research should be done on these problems, it is probably naive to expect it to provide clear guidance in the near future on 7 Uneducated farmers may follow the innovations adopted by their educated neighbours. For evidence of copying in agriculture, see Foster and Rosenzweig (1995); Burger, Collier and Gunning (1993). Appleton and Balihuta (1996) find a correlation between farm productivity and the education of neighbouring farmers.…”

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User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring, and Voucher Systems in Education

Appleton¹

2001

Social Provision in Low-Income Countries

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Learning by Doing and Learning from Others: Human Capital and Technical Change in Agriculture

Cited by 1,485 publications

References 8 publications

Adoption and Impact of Hybrid Wheat in India

Adoption and Impact of Hybrid Wheat in India

Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap

User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring, and Voucher Systems in Education

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