The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology

Mark Treurniet

doi:10.1086/717251

The Impact of Being Surveyed on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology

Mark Treurniet^*

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Development Economics

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This paper uses exogenous variation in the probability of being surveyed at baseline to estimate the impact of being surveyed on subsistence farmers’ take-up of a new agricultural technology that improves food safety. I find large and statistically significant impacts of being surveyed, and also find that an experimental treatment effect disappears for surveyed farmers. My results have strong implications for our understanding of the process of technology adoption, for the external validity of adoption results measured in surveyed populations, and for research ethics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	941-962
Journal	Economic Development and Cultural Change
Volume	71
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/717251
Publication status	Published - Apr 2023

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