Working paper
Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps
- Alternative title:
- evidence from Ethiopia
- Abstract:
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Much has been written on the determinants of input and technology adoption in agriculture, with issues such as input availability, knowledge and education, risk preferences, profitability, and credit constraints receiving much attention. This paper focuses on a factor that has been less well documented: the differential ability of households to take on risky production technologies for fear of the welfare consequences if shocks result in poor harvests. Building on an explicit model, this is e...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Not peer reviewed
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+ "Norvegian-Finnish Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Trust Fund", "Economic and Social Research Council", "World Economy and Finance programme"
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Dercon, S
Christiaensen, L
Grant:
RES 156-25-0034
RES 156-25-0034
Bibliographic Details
- Series:
- CSAE working paper series
- Place of publication:
- http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/workingpapers/main-wps.html
- Publication date:
- 2007-01-01
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:2587
- Deposit date:
- 2009-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Stefan Dercon & Luc Christiaensen
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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