Adoption of agricultural innovations as a two-stage partial observability process |
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Authors: | Efthalia Dimara Dimitris Skuras |
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Affiliation: | Department of Economics, University of Patras, University Campus-Rio, Patras 26500, Greece |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we reconsider the appropriateness of certain statistical analyses in innovation adoption studies and suggest that partial observability models may sometimes be more useful. The proposed models allow for a flexible specification of the process of adoption from one stage to two stages, facilitate the modelling of non‐adopters and remedy the violation of the assumption of full information. An application to the adoption of organic cultivation in Greece demonstrates the relative merits of the proposed analysis. |
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Keywords: | Q12 D21 C25 |
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