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...

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Main Authors: Duflo, Esther (Contributor), Kremer, Michael (Contributor), Robinson, Jonathan (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor), Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2012-08-22T20:30:38Z.
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