Adoption and Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Ethiopia: The Role of Education

Sharada Weir () and John Knight

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Abstract: Schooling has been shown to provide substantial externality benefits by increasing farm output and shifting the production frontier outwards. This paper investigates the role of schooling at the household- and site-levels in the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. We find that household-level education is important to the timing of adoption but less crucial to the question of whether a household has ever adopted fertiliser, i.e., early innovators tend to be educated and to be copied by those who adopt later, obscuring the relationship between education and adoption at the household-level. By contrast, site-level education appears not to affect the timing of an innovation's introduction to the site, but does influence the extent of diffusion.

Keywords: EDUCATION; PRODUCTIVITY; AGRICULTURE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 I20 O33 Q16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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