Lexicographic Ordering and Loss Aversion among Low-Income Farmers
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- Roumasset, James, 2024. "Lexicographic Ordering and Loss Aversion among Low-Income Farmers," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 217(C), pages 483-492.
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Keywords
technology adoption; agricultural development; risk; subsistence; satisficing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Q16 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - R&D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2023-09-25 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2023-09-25 (South East Asia)
- NEP-UPT-2023-09-25 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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