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Farmers’ Adoption of Irrigation Technologies: Experimental Evidence from a Coordination Game with Positive Network Externalities in India

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  • Müller Malte

    (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

  • Kimmich Christian

    (Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL and Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Republica Cehă)

  • Rommel Jens

    (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, Germany)

Abstract

Electric irrigation contributes to food security in rural India, but deteriorating electrical infrastructures threaten the functioning of farmers’ pump sets. This problem could be solved through investments in energy-efficient technologies. However, network externalities create a coordination problem for farmers. We develop a framed field experiment to study the effects of group size, leading by example, and payoff structures on the ability to coordinate technology adoption investments. The experiment is based on a game that combines features of a step-level public goods game and a critical mass game. Our findings show that smaller groups more frequently coordinate on payoff- superior equilibria and that higher payoffs lead to more investments. Contrary to previous studies, leading by example reduces investments but has no effect on efficiency. Building on this analysis, we discuss possible bottom-up solutions to the energy crisis in rural India.

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  • Müller Malte & Kimmich Christian & Rommel Jens, 2018. "Farmers’ Adoption of Irrigation Technologies: Experimental Evidence from a Coordination Game with Positive Network Externalities in India," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 19(2), pages 119-139, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:germec:v:19:y:2018:i:2:p:119-139
    DOI: 10.1111/geer.12117
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    1. Cabrales, Antonio & Hauk, Esther, 2022. "Norms and the evolution of leaders’ followership," SocArXiv 8mect, Center for Open Science.
    2. Rommel, Jens & Anggraini, Eva, 2018. "Spatially explicit framed field experiments on ecosystem services governance," Ecosystem Services, Elsevier, vol. 34(PB), pages 201-205.
    3. Müller, Malte, 2020. "Leadership in agricultural machinery circles: experimental evidence from Tajikistan," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 64(2), April.
    4. J. Nicolas Hernandez-Aguilera & Max Mauerman & Alexandra Herrera & Kathryn Vasilaky & Walter Baethgen & Ana Maria Loboguerrero & Rahel Diro & Yohana Tesfamariam Tekeste & Daniel Osgood, 2020. "Games and Fieldwork in Agriculture: A Systematic Review of the 21st Century in Economics and Social Science," Games, MDPI, vol. 11(4), pages 1-22, October.
    5. Muller, Malte & Rommel, Jens, 2018. "Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Behavioral Approach to Organizational Choice in Tajikistan’s Agriculture," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 43(3), September.

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