As Good as the Networks They Keep? : Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda

We examine an intervention randomized at the village level in which female farmers invited to a single training session were randomly paired with farmers whom they did not know and encouraged to share new agricultural information throughout the growing season for a recently adopted cash crop. We sho...

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Main Authors:	Vasilaky, Kathryn N., Leonard, Kenneth L.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	The University of Chicago Press 2018
Subjects:	FEMALE FARMERS AGRICULTURAL TRAINING EXTENSION TRAINING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY SHARING
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29324

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description	We examine an intervention randomized at the village level in which female farmers invited to a single training session were randomly paired with farmers whom they did not know and encouraged to share new agricultural information throughout the growing season for a recently adopted cash crop. We show that the intervention signi ficantly increased the productivity of all farmers except of those who were already in the highest quintile of productivity, and that there were signifi cant spillovers in productivity to male farmers.
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author	Vasilaky, Kathryn N. Leonard, Kenneth L.
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title	As Good as the Networks They Keep? : Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
title_short	As Good as the Networks They Keep? : Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
title_full	As Good as the Networks They Keep? : Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
title_fullStr	As Good as the Networks They Keep? : Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
title_full_unstemmed	As Good as the Networks They Keep? : Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda
title_sort	as good as the networks they keep? : improving outcomes through weak ties in rural uganda
publisher	The University of Chicago Press
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As Good as the Networks They Keep? : Improving Outcomes through Weak Ties in Rural Uganda

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