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As Good as the Networks They Keep? Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda

Author(s) -

Kathryn Vasilaky,

Kenneth L. Leonard

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

economic development and cultural change

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.217

H-Index - 71

eISSN - 1539-2988

pISSN - 0013-0079

DOI - 10.1086/697430

Subject(s) - productivity , intervention (counseling) , cash crop , cash , session (web analytics) , business , agricultural productivity , agriculture , average treatment effect , randomized experiment , agricultural economics , economics , demographic economics , economic growth , geography , psychology , finance , medicine , advertising , archaeology , pathology , psychiatry , propensity score matching

We examine an intervention randomized at the village level in which female farmers invited to a single training session were randomly paired with farmers whom they did not know and encouraged to share new agricultural information throughout the growing season for a recently adopted cash crop. We show that the intervention significantly increased the productivity of all farmers except those who were already in the highest quintile of productivity and that there were significant spillovers in productivity to male farmers.

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