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AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
卷 106, 期 6, 页码 1537-1561出版社
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20150474
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- Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Stress-Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) project of the CGIAR
We use a randomized experiment in India to show that improved technology enhances agricultural productivity by crowding in modern inputs and cultivation practices. Specifically, we show that a new rice variety that reduces downside risk by providing flood tolerance has positive effects on adoption of a more labor-intensive planting method, area cultivated, fertilizer usage, and credit utilization. We find that a large share of the expected gains from the technology comes from crowding in of other investments. Therefore, improved technologies that reduce risk by protecting production in bad years have the potential to increase agricultural productivity in normal years.
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