DOES AGGREGATION AFFECT INFERENCES, WHEN ANALYSING THE ADOPTION OF AN EMERGING ALTERNATIVE CROP? A COMPARISON OF FARM- AND MUNICIPALITY-LEVEL RESULTS FOR CULTIVATION OF THE STYRIAN OIL PUMPKIN

Andreas Niedermayr and Jochen Kantelhardt

No 262172, 57th Annual Conference, Weihenstephan, Germany, September 13-15, 2017 from German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA)

Abstract: The aim of this study is to assess, whether estimation of the same innovation-adoption model at farm- and municipality-level results in an ecological fallacy, meaning that based on aggregated data, one would make inverse inferences about the driving forces influencing the adoption decision at the farm level. The adoption of an emerging alternative crop in Austria, the Styrian Oil Pumpkin, serves as an applied example. Our findings indicate the presence of an ecological fallacy. We therefore propose further research, which could consist of Monte Carlo simulations in order to analyse sensitivity of results with respect to the degree of aggregation.

Keywords: Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 3
Date: 2017-08-15
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hme
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/262172/files/Niedermayr_204.pdf (application/pdf)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/262172/files/N ... 4.pdf?subformat=pdfa (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:gewi17:262172

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.262172

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 57th Annual Conference, Weihenstephan, Germany, September 13-15, 2017 from German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().