Mobilizing P2P Diffusion for New Agricultural Practices: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
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This paper uses a randomized managed experiment in which farmers properly trained on a new rice cultivation technique educate two other farmers. The success demonstrate that the intervention will increase yields and farm earnings between handled farmers. Instructor-trainees are effective at spreading understanding and inducing adoption relative to just schooling. Incentivizing instructor-trainees enhances understanding transmission but not adoption. Matching instructor-trainees with farmers who record them as purpose styles does not strengthen understanding transmission and may possibly damage adoption. Using mediation assessment, the examine finds that the understanding of the instructor-trainee is correlated with that of their learners, constant with understanding transmission. The paper also finds that systems of rice intensification (SRI) understanding predicts adoption of some SRI techniques, and that adoption by instructor-trainees predicts adoption by their learners, suggesting that learners abide by the instance of their instructor. With value-benefit estimates of social returns in excess of one hundred per cent, explicitly mobilizing peer-to-peer (P2P) transmission of understanding appears a value-effective way of inducing the adoption of new worthwhile agricultural techniques.
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