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Adoption of agricultural innovations as a two‐stage partial observability process
Author(s) -
Dimara Efthalia,
Skuras Dimitris
Publication year - 2003
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/j.1574-0862.2003.tb00137.x
Subject(s) - observability , process (computing) , stage (stratigraphy) , agriculture , computer science , economics , econometrics , industrial organization , mathematics , ecology , paleontology , biology , operating system
In this paper, we reconsider the appropriateness of certain statistical analyses in innovation adoption studies and suggest that partial observability models may sometimes be more useful. The proposed models allow for a flexible specification of the process of adoption from one stage to two stages, facilitate the modelling of non‐adopters and remedy the violation of the assumption of full information. An application to the adoption of organic cultivation in Greece demonstrates the relative merits of the proposed analysis.