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Crossbred cow adoption and its correlates: Countable adoption specification search in Sri Lanka's small holder dairy sector
Author(s) -
Edirisinghe Jagath C.,
Holloway Garth J.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/agec.12195
Subject(s) - countable set , sri lanka , unification , crossbreed , economics , agriculture , representation (politics) , microeconomics , mathematics , computer science , geography , political science , discrete mathematics , socioeconomics , politics , zoology , archaeology , biology , law , tanzania , programming language
Considerable specification choice confronts countable adoption investigations and there is need to measure, formally, the evidence in favor of competing formulations. This article presents alternative countable adoption specifications—hitherto neglected in the agricultural‐economics literature—and assesses formally their usefulness to practitioners. Reference to the left side of de Finetti's (1937) famous representation theorem motivates Bayesian unification of agricultural adoption studies and facilitates comparisons with conventional binary‐choice specifications. Such comparisons have not previously been considered. The various formulations and the specific techniques are highlighted in an application to crossbred cow adoption in Sri Lanka's small‐holder dairy sector.