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Social Preferences and Agricultural Innovation: An Experimental Case Study from Ethiopia

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Abstract

We run an experiment in Ethiopia where farmers can use their own money to decrease the money of others (money burning). The data supports the prediction from an inequality aversion model based on absolute income differences; but there is no support for an inequality aversion model based on comparison with mean payoff of others. Experimentally measured money burning on the village level is negatively correlated to real life agricultural innovations. This result is robust even when data from another independent survey than the current research are used. This underscores the importance of social preferences in agricultural innovations in developing countries.

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Author(s): Kebede B, Zizzo DJ

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: World Development

Year: 2015

Volume: 67

Pages: 267-280

Print publication date: 01/03/2015

Online publication date: 20/11/2014

Acceptance date: 21/10/2014

Date deposited: 17/06/2015

ISSN (print): 0305-750X

ISSN (electronic): 1873-5991

Publisher: Pergamon Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.022

DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.022

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