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FARMER AND FARM CONCEPTS IN MEASURING ADOPTION LAGS
Author(s) -
Mueller R. A. E.,
Jansen H. G. P.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1988.tb00567.x
Subject(s) - early adopter , business , survey data collection , industrial organization , economics , marketing , mathematics , statistics
Conventional definitions of the time to adoption of an innovation do not consider whether a potential adopter already had decision‐making responsibilities at the time the innovation became available. Data from a pest management survey conducted in India are used to evaluate empirically an alternative definition that takes into account when farmers assumed decision‐making responsibilities.