Title: Agricultural extension, trust, and learning: results from economic experiments in Ecuador
Abstract: Agricultural EconomicsVolume 42, Issue 6 p. 685-699 Agricultural extension, trust, and learning: results from economic experiments in Ecuador Steven Buck, Corresponding Author Steven Buck Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 207 Giannini Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3310, USA Corresponding author. Tel.: (510) 932-6375; fax: (510) 643-8911. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Buck).Search for more papers by this authorJeffrey Alwang, Jeffrey Alwang Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 208 Hutcheson Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0401, USASearch for more papers by this author Steven Buck, Corresponding Author Steven Buck Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, 207 Giannini Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3310, USA Corresponding author. Tel.: (510) 932-6375; fax: (510) 643-8911. E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Buck).Search for more papers by this authorJeffrey Alwang, Jeffrey Alwang Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 208 Hutcheson Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0401, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 June 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2011.00547.xCitations: 27 This project was made possible by the United States Agency for International Development and the generous support of the American people through USAID Cooperative Agreement No. EPP-A-00-04-00016-00. We are grateful to Henry Brady, Stefano DellaVigna, Erick Gong, Kelly Jones, Ethan Ligon, Jeremy Magruder, Steven Raphael, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Laura Schechter, Paul Wassenich, David Zilberman and two anonymous referees for their useful comments. We also thank Robert Andrade and Kathleen Winter for data collection efforts as well as the Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP) in Ecuador for their support of the project. 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Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract Using an artefactual economic experiment and a randomized training intervention in Ecuador we test if trust conditions a farmer’s decision to learn during an agricultural training. We present a simple model of farmer behavior during the agricultural training in order to link play in the laboratory to behavior in the field. We find evidence that farmers who trust agricultural technicians relatively more than community farmers in the trust game learn more during training. The results provide insight into the design of agricultural extension services in Ecuador. Supporting Information Data Appendix Available Online Filename Description AGEC_547_sm_SuppMat.pdf122.2 KB Supporting info item Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. 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