Measuring Education Levels of Farmers: Evidence from Innovation Adoption in Bangladesh

Masakazu Hojo

No 04-06, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: Education levels of farmers have been measured in a variety of ways in preceding studies. In order to examine whether or not different measures of education have different effects on the behavior of farmers, I first summarize the measures of education and then perform an empirical analysis. Although education measures examined in this paper have been used in many studies, their effects are shown to differ significantly in my empirical analysis: some variables have positive impacts on farmer fs behavior while others do not. This result suggests we have to pay more attention to selecting measures of education in empirical investigations.

Keywords: Education; Agriculture; Technology adoption; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 Q12 Q16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2004-03
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