This paper examines a well known empirical puzzle in the literature on technology adoption: despite the potential of … technology use via comparative advantage differences, I examine whether the yield returns to adopting hybrid maize vary across …

. -- Technology ; heterogeneity ; comparative advantage …This paper examines a well known empirical puzzle in the literature on technology adoption: despite the potential of … technology use via comparative advantage differences, I examine whether the yield returns to adopting hybrid maize vary across …

This paper examines a well known empirical puzzle in the literature on technology adoption: despite the potential of … technology use via comparative advantage differences, I examine whether the yield returns to adopting hybrid maize vary across …

This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in technology adoption for developing countries: the low adoption rates of … costs of technologies are heterogeneous, so that farmers with low net returns do not adopt the technology. I examine this …, but their returns are correlated with high costs of acquiring the technology (due to poor infrastructure). Another group …

This study addresses the structural heterogeneity and production of Brazilian agriculture. Economic indicators of labor … productivity, specialization and income concentration in agriculture are analyzed. The structural heterogeneity can be evidenced … discussing the structural and productive issues that lead to heterogeneity in agriculture. We show a high specialization and …

efficiency. Our results suggest that technological heterogeneity plays important role in crop sector which traditionally is … assumed by homogeneous technology. The comparison of standard SFA models assuming that the technology is common to all farms …

model of an incentive contract under moral hazard, taking into account agents heterogeneity in preferences. We show that … contracting farmers are heterogenous with respect to their risk aversion and that this heterogeneity affects the principal …