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Scaling-up adoption of improved technologies: The impact of the promotion of row planting on farmers' teff yields in Ethiopia

Vandercasteelen, Joachim; Dereje, Mekdim; Minten, Bart; … - 2013

agricultural technology, i.e. row planting at reduced seed rate, on farmers' teff yields in Ethiopia. The results of a randomized …

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Access to credit and heterogeneous effects on agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from large rural surveys in Ethiopia

Regassa, Mekdim D.; Degnet, Mohammed B.; Melesse, … - In: Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue … 71 (2023) 2, pp. 231-253

rural surveys in Ethiopia. Using a heteroscedasticity‐based identification strategy to address the endogenous nature of …

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Performance of women-managed plots compared to men-managed plots among smallholder maize farmers in western and central Ethiopia

Phiri Marenya, Paswel; Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos; … - In: Journal of Applied Economics 24 (2021) 1, pp. 523-540

agricultural productivity. This paper uses gender-disaggregated household and plot-level survey data from Ethiopia to explore the …

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Determinants of multiple agricultural technology adoption: evidence from rural Amhara region, Ethiopia

Zegeye, Mesele Belay; Fikire, Abebaw Hailu; Meshesha, … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-23

productivity, achieve food security and reduce poverty in Ethiopia. Despite the efforts to promote adoption in the country, the … Amhara region of Ethiopia. The study is based on an Ethiopian socio-economic survey of 2015/16 and a sample of 656 farm … crucial policy implications regarding the technology adoption in the agricultural sector for all regions of Ethiopia. …

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The Adoption of ChatGPT

Humlum, Anders; Vestergaard, Emilie - 2024

We study the adoption of ChatGPT, the icon of Generative AI, using a large-scale survey experiment linked to comprehensive register data in Denmark. Surveying 100,000 workers from 11 exposed occupations, we document ChatGPT is pervasive: half of workers have used it, with younger, less...

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Does integrated soil fertility management increase returns to land and labor? Plot-level evidence from Ethiopia

Hörner, Denise; Wollni, Meike - 2020

,000 households in Ethiopia. We employ a multinomial endogenous switching model to account for endogeneity from observed and …

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Industrial labor productivities and tariffs in South Africa. Identification based on multilateral liberalization reform

Harding, Torfinn; Rattsø, Jørn - 2009

The analysis of the effect of tariffs for labor productivity faces the challenge of tariff policy endogeneity. Tariff policy is designed to promote economic development and the industrial sector tariff structure may reflect characteristics of the industries protected. We seek to identify the...

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Interpersonal, intertemporal and spatial variation in risk perceptions: evidence from East Africa

Doss, Cheryl; McPeak, John; Barrett, Christopher - 2006

This study investigates variation over time, space and household and individual characteristics in how people perceive different risks. Using original data from the arid and semi-arid lands of east Africa, we explore which risks concern individuals and how they assess their relative level of...

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AIDS and dualism: Ethiopia's burden under rational expectations

Bell, Clive; Koukoumelis, Anastasios - 2009

An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …

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Does positional concern matter in poor societies? Evidence from a survey experiment in rural Ethiopia

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter; Medhin, Haileselassie - 2009

We investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in Northern Ethiopia, using a tailored survey …

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