Nudging Farmers to Utilize Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
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Technology adoption; Hyperbolic discounting;JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2009-11-27 (Africa)
- NEP-AGR-2009-11-27 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2009-11-27 (Development)
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