Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
We model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer and assume some are stochastically present biased and not fully sophisticated about this bias. Such farmers may procrastinate, postponing fertilizer purchases until later periods, when they may be too impatient to purchase fertili...
Main Authors: | Duflo, Esther, Kremer, Michael, Robinson, Jonathan |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Economic Association
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72333 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6105-617X |
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