Using Field Experiments to Elicit Risk and Ambiguity Preferences: Behavioural Factors and the Adoption of New Agricultural Technologies in Rural India.

We conduct a series of experiments in rural India in order to measure preferences related to risk, loss, and ambiguity. By combining these results with a discrete choice experiment over new and familiar rice seeds, we demonstrate how these behavioural parameters affect decisions to adopt new agricul...

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Published in:	Journal of Development Studies Vol. 51; no. 6; pp. 707 - 725
Main Authors:	Ward, Patrick S., Singh, Vartika
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2015
Subjects:	Discrete choice models Rice seeds Agricultural technology Seed research Economic decision making
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