Information networks among women and men and the demand for an agricultural technology in India

Nicholas Magnan (), David Spielman, Kajal Gulati and Travis Lybbert

No 1411, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Although there is ample evidence of differences in how and where men and women acquire information, most research on learning and household decisionmaking only considers access to information for a single, typically male, household head. This assumption may be problematic in developing-country agriculture, where women play a fundamental role in farming. Using gender-disaggregated social network data from Uttar Pradesh, India, we analyze agricultural information networks among men and women. We test for gender-specific network effects on demand for laser land leveling—a resource-conserving technology—using data from a field experiment that combines a Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) auction with a lottery.

Keywords: Agricultural technologies; Gender; Women; information; technology adoption; Developing countries; Agricultural research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-exp, nep-net and nep-soc
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