Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
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This paper utilizes a randomized controlled experiment in which farmers qualified on a new rice cultivation process instruct two other farmers. The benefits show that the intervention increases yields and farm gains amid dealt with farmers. Teacher-trainees are helpful at spreading information and inducing adoption relative to just instruction. Incentivizing teacher-trainees improves information transmission but not adoption. Matching teacher-trainees with farmers who list them as part models does not strengthen information transmission and may damage adoption. Applying mediation examination, the examine finds that the information of the teacher-trainee is correlated with that of their learners, steady with information transmission. The paper also finds that methods of rice intensification (SRI) information predicts adoption of some SRI procedures, and that adoption by teacher-trainees predicts adoption by their learners, suggesting that learners abide by the case in point of their teacher. With charge-reward estimates of social returns in surplus of one hundred p.c, explicitly mobilizing peer-to-peer (P2P) transmission of information seems a charge-helpful way of inducing the adoption of new profitable agricultural procedures.
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