Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana

被引：19

作者：

Ali, Daniel Ayalew ^{[1
]}

Bowen, Derick ^{[2
]}

Deininger, Klaus ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] World Bank, Dev Res Grp, 1818 H St NW, Washington, DC 20433 USA

[2] Millennium Challenge Corp, Econ Anal Div, Dept Policy & Evaluat, Washington, DC USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES | 2019年

关键词：

STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS; NONCOGNITIVE SKILLS; TIME PREFERENCE; MOTIVATION; POVERTY; ACQUIESCENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; ABILITIES; ECONOMICS; SELECTION;

D O I：

10.1080/00220388.2019.1666978

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labour market outcomes, evidence of their impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and optimism) significantly affect simple adoption decisions, returns from adoption, and technical efficiency in rice production, and that the size of the estimated impacts exceeds that of traditional human capital measures. Greater focus on personality traits relative to cognitive skills may help accelerate innovation diffusion in the short term, and help farmers to respond flexibly to new opportunities and risks in the longer term.

引用

页码：1330 / 1348

页数：19

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