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Receptiveness to advice, cognitive ability, and technology adoption☆
Bradford L Barham1, Jean-Paul Chavas1, Dylan Fitz2
1UW Madison's Agricultural and Applied Economics Department, United States.
Abstract:
We construct a model of technology adoption with agents differing on two dimensions: their cognitive ability and their receptiveness to advice. While cognitive ability unambiguously speeds adoption, receptiveness to advice may speed adoption for individuals with low cognitive ability, but slow adoption for individuals with high cognitive ability. We conduct economic experiments measuring US farmers' cognitive ability and receptiveness to advice and examine how these characteristics impact their speed of adoption of genetically modified (GM) corn seeds. The empirical analysis shows that early adopters are those who are both quite able cognitively and not receptive to advice.
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