The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Ecuadorian farmers do not play the investment game (Berg 1995) the same with community farmers as they do with agricultural technicians. Women exhibit a preference for trust in agricultural technicians (vertical trust). Using experimental and survey data from 191 farmers we examine factors associa...

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Main Author: Buck, Steven
Other Authors: Agricultural and Applied Economics
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Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32182
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042006-163903/
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spelling ndltd-VTETD-oai-vtechworks.lib.vt.edu-10919-321822020-09-26T05:38:07Z The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon Buck, Steven Agricultural and Applied Economics Alwang, Jeffrey R. Norton, George W. Schechter, Laura Mills, Bradford F. Credit Access Technology Adoption Knowledge Acquisition Trust Field Experiments Ecuadorian farmers do not play the investment game (Berg 1995) the same with community farmers as they do with agricultural technicians. Women exhibit a preference for trust in agricultural technicians (vertical trust). Using experimental and survey data from 191 farmers we examine factors associated with 1) farmer trust in community farmers, 2) farmer trust in agricultural technicians, and 3) differences between levels of trust in agricultural technicians and community farmers. Then we explore how our measures of trust correlate with pesticide knowledge and purchase of pesticide safety equipment; in addition, we consider how our measures of trust correlate with accessing bank loans. Farmers who place more trust in community farmers score lower on our pesticide knowledge exam and they are less likely to adopt our pesticide safety equipment technology. We find that farmers who exhibit a preference for trusting agricultural technicians score higher on our pesticide knowledge exam; they are also more likely to report having accessed a bank loan. Master of Science 2014-03-14T20:35:00Z 2014-03-14T20:35:00Z 2006-04-24 2006-05-04 2007-06-02 2006-06-02 Thesis etd-05042006-163903 http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32182 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05042006-163903/ buck.pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ application/pdf Virginia Tech
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topic Credit Access
Technology Adoption
Knowledge Acquisition
Trust
Field Experiments
spellingShingle Credit Access
Technology Adoption
Knowledge Acquisition
Trust
Field Experiments
Buck, Steven
The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon
description Ecuadorian farmers do not play the investment game (Berg 1995) the same with community farmers as they do with agricultural technicians. Women exhibit a preference for trust in agricultural technicians (vertical trust). Using experimental and survey data from 191 farmers we examine factors associated with 1) farmer trust in community farmers, 2) farmer trust in agricultural technicians, and 3) differences between levels of trust in agricultural technicians and community farmers. Then we explore how our measures of trust correlate with pesticide knowledge and purchase of pesticide safety equipment; in addition, we consider how our measures of trust correlate with accessing bank loans. Farmers who place more trust in community farmers score lower on our pesticide knowledge exam and they are less likely to adopt our pesticide safety equipment technology. We find that farmers who exhibit a preference for trusting agricultural technicians score higher on our pesticide knowledge exam; they are also more likely to report having accessed a bank loan. === Master of Science
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title The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon
title_short The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon
title_full The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon
title_fullStr The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Trust in Knowledge Acquisition, Technology Adoption and Access to Bank Loans: Results from Field Experiments in the Ecuadorian Amazon
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