Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption
Understanding the trade-offs in improving the precision of agricultural measures through survey design is crucial. Yet, standard indicators used to determine program effectiveness may be flawed and at a differential rate for men and women. The auth...
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okr-10986-205062021-04-23T14:03:56Z Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption Kondylis, Florence Mueller, Valerie Zhu, Siyao Jessica AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE BEANS BIOTECHNOLOGY CASH CROP CASH CROPS CASHEW NUTS CASSAVA CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS CIVIL WAR CLIMATE CHANGE CONSUMER DEMAND CORN COTTON COWPEAS CROP PRODUCTION CROP ROTATION CROPS CULTIVATION CULTIVATION PRACTICES CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISEASES DRY SEASON ECONOMICS ECOSYSTEM EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EXAM EXAMS EXTENSION SERVICES FAO FARM FARM PRODUCTIVITY FARMER FARMERS FARMING FARMS FERTILIZER FERTILIZER USE FERTILIZERS FEWER CHILDREN FOOD CROPS FOOD SECURITY GENDER GENDER GAP GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT HOUSEHOLD NUMBER HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INDEXES INTERCROPPING INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERVENTIONS LAND DEGRADATION LAND MANAGEMENT LEARNING LIFE CYCLE LITERACY MAIZE MARITAL STATUS MARKETING MARRIED MEN MULCH MULCHING NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF PEOPLE PERSONALITY PESTICIDES PESTS PIGEON PEAS PLANTING PLOWING POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRODUCE PRODUCTION OF COTTON PROGRESS RESPECT RICE ROLE OF WOMEN RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLING SEED SEED VARIETIES SEEDLINGS SESAME SMALLER HOUSEHOLDS SMALLHOLDERS SOCIAL SCIENCES SOIL EROSION SOIL FERTILITY SORGHUM SOWING SOYBEAN SPOUSE SPOUSES SUGAR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TILLAGE TOBACCO TRANSPORTATION TREES WEEDS YIELDS Understanding the trade-offs in improving the precision of agricultural measures through survey design is crucial. Yet, standard indicators used to determine program effectiveness may be flawed and at a differential rate for men and women. The authors use a household survey from Mozambique to estimate the measurement error from male and female self-reports of their adoption and knowledge of three practices: intercropping, mulching, and strip tillage. Despite clear differences in human and physical capital, there are no obvious differences in the knowledge, adoption, and error in self-reporting between men and women. Having received training unanimously lowers knowledge misreports and increases adoption misreports. Other determinants of reporting error differ by gender. Misreporting is positively associated with a greater number of plots for men. Recall decay on measures of knowledge appears prominent among men but not women. Findings from regression and cost-effectiveness analyses always favor the collection of objective measures of knowledge. Given the lowest rate of accuracy for adoption was around 80 percent, costlier objective adoption measures are recommended for a subsample in regions with heterogeneous farm sizes. 2014-11-12T20:08:25Z 2014-11-12T20:08:25Z 2014-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/10/20273015/measuring-agricultural-knowledge-adoption http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20506 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7058 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE BEANS BIOTECHNOLOGY CASH CROP CASH CROPS CASHEW NUTS CASSAVA CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS CIVIL WAR CLIMATE CHANGE CONSUMER DEMAND CORN COTTON COWPEAS CROP PRODUCTION CROP ROTATION CROPS CULTIVATION CULTIVATION PRACTICES CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISEASES DRY SEASON ECONOMICS ECOSYSTEM EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EXAM EXAMS EXTENSION SERVICES FAO FARM FARM PRODUCTIVITY FARMER FARMERS FARMING FARMS FERTILIZER FERTILIZER USE FERTILIZERS FEWER CHILDREN FOOD CROPS FOOD SECURITY GENDER GENDER GAP GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT HOUSEHOLD NUMBER HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INDEXES INTERCROPPING INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERVENTIONS LAND DEGRADATION LAND MANAGEMENT LEARNING LIFE CYCLE LITERACY MAIZE MARITAL STATUS MARKETING MARRIED MEN MULCH MULCHING NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF PEOPLE PERSONALITY PESTICIDES PESTS PIGEON PEAS PLANTING PLOWING POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRODUCE PRODUCTION OF COTTON PROGRESS RESPECT RICE ROLE OF WOMEN RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLING SEED SEED VARIETIES SEEDLINGS SESAME SMALLER HOUSEHOLDS SMALLHOLDERS SOCIAL SCIENCES SOIL EROSION SOIL FERTILITY SORGHUM SOWING SOYBEAN SPOUSE SPOUSES SUGAR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TILLAGE TOBACCO TRANSPORTATION TREES WEEDS YIELDS |
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AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE BEANS BIOTECHNOLOGY CASH CROP CASH CROPS CASHEW NUTS CASSAVA CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS CIVIL WAR CLIMATE CHANGE CONSUMER DEMAND CORN COTTON COWPEAS CROP PRODUCTION CROP ROTATION CROPS CULTIVATION CULTIVATION PRACTICES CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISEASES DRY SEASON ECONOMICS ECOSYSTEM EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EXAM EXAMS EXTENSION SERVICES FAO FARM FARM PRODUCTIVITY FARMER FARMERS FARMING FARMS FERTILIZER FERTILIZER USE FERTILIZERS FEWER CHILDREN FOOD CROPS FOOD SECURITY GENDER GENDER GAP GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT HOUSEHOLD NUMBER HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INDEXES INTERCROPPING INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERVENTIONS LAND DEGRADATION LAND MANAGEMENT LEARNING LIFE CYCLE LITERACY MAIZE MARITAL STATUS MARKETING MARRIED MEN MULCH MULCHING NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NUMBER OF CHILDREN NUMBER OF PEOPLE PERSONALITY PESTICIDES PESTS PIGEON PEAS PLANTING PLOWING POLICY ANALYSIS POLICY DECISIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIMARY SCHOOL EDUCATION PRODUCE PRODUCTION OF COTTON PROGRESS RESPECT RICE ROLE OF WOMEN RURAL DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLING SEED SEED VARIETIES SEEDLINGS SESAME SMALLER HOUSEHOLDS SMALLHOLDERS SOCIAL SCIENCES SOIL EROSION SOIL FERTILITY SORGHUM SOWING SOYBEAN SPOUSE SPOUSES SUGAR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TILLAGE TOBACCO TRANSPORTATION TREES WEEDS YIELDS Kondylis, Florence Mueller, Valerie Zhu, Siyao Jessica Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption |
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Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7058 |
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Understanding the trade-offs in
improving the precision of agricultural measures through
survey design is crucial. Yet, standard indicators used to
determine program effectiveness may be flawed and at a
differential rate for men and women. The authors use a
household survey from Mozambique to estimate the measurement
error from male and female self-reports of their adoption
and knowledge of three practices: intercropping, mulching,
and strip tillage. Despite clear differences in human and
physical capital, there are no obvious differences in the
knowledge, adoption, and error in self-reporting between men
and women. Having received training unanimously lowers
knowledge misreports and increases adoption misreports.
Other determinants of reporting error differ by gender.
Misreporting is positively associated with a greater number
of plots for men. Recall decay on measures of knowledge
appears prominent among men but not women. Findings from
regression and cost-effectiveness analyses always favor the
collection of objective measures of knowledge. Given the
lowest rate of accuracy for adoption was around 80 percent,
costlier objective adoption measures are recommended for a
subsample in regions with heterogeneous farm sizes. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
| author |
Kondylis, Florence Mueller, Valerie Zhu, Siyao Jessica |
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Kondylis, Florence Mueller, Valerie Zhu, Siyao Jessica |
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Kondylis, Florence |
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Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption |
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Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption |
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Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption |
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Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption |
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Measuring Agricultural Knowledge and Adoption |
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measuring agricultural knowledge and adoption |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC |
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2014 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/10/20273015/measuring-agricultural-knowledge-adoption http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20506 |
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