Joint Adoption of Microcomputer Technologies: An Analysis of Farmers' Decisions

Wallace Huffman and S. Mercier

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This study presents an econometric examination of the joint decisions of farmers on the adoption of a microcomputer and (or) purchased computers services. The characteristics of a farmer--schooling, age, off-farm work--are shown to be important variables for explaining the odds of adopting purchased computers services only, a microcomputer only, and both computer technologies. Adoption of computer technologies seems to occur in farming operations where they can be expected to greatly enhance the efficiency.

Date: 1991-08-01
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Published in Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1991, vol. 73, pp. 541-546

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