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Technology Adoption, Transactions Costs, and Input Subsidies in Smallholder Agriculture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Technology Adoption, Transactions Costs, and Input Subsidies in Smallholder Agriculture./
Author:	Bird, Samuel Sophus.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	126 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-06A.
Subject:	Economics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=22588003
ISBN:	9781392664063

Technology Adoption, Transactions Costs, and Input Subsidies in Smallholder Agriculture.
Bird, Samuel Sophus.

Technology Adoption, Transactions Costs, and Input Subsidies in Smallholder Agriculture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 126 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

To increase food production in sub-Saharan Africa, many governments subsidize adoption of high-yielding production technologies like hybrid seeds. Many programs target subsidies to relatively wealthy households producing surplus food to sell on the market. Yet technologies that increase food production may allow some households to overcome the transaction costs of selling in food markets and others to displace costly purchases of food, increasing their incentives to adopt. This dissertation studies the effect of transaction costs in output markets on both household technology adoption and the targeting and design of input subsidy programs. Chapter 1 uses a randomized control trial to estimate the effects of new hybrid maize varieties on the productivity of smallholder households in Kenya. Buying and selling maize is costly in the study areas, and Chapter 2 studies how these costs affect technology adoption theoretically and empirically. Chapter 3 studies the implications of these costs for a policymaker targeting and designing an agricultural input subsidy program. The common policy approach of targeting agricultural subsidies to households producing surplus food excludes many households willing to adopt new production technologies, and is a sub-optimal policy in economies with certain wealth distributions.

ISBN: 9781392664063Subjects--Topical Terms:

517137
Economics.
Subjects--Index Terms:

agricultural input subsidies

Technology Adoption, Transactions Costs, and Input Subsidies in Smallholder Agriculture.
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