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

Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labor 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)...

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Main Authors: Ali, Daniel Ayalew, Brown, Derick, Deininger, Klaus
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32603
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spelling okr-10986-326032021-05-25T10:54:35Z Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana Ali, Daniel Ayalew Brown, Derick Deininger, Klaus PERSONALITY TRAIT NONCOGNITIVE SKILL TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY RICE FARMER SMALLHOLDER FARM Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labor 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. 2019-10-22T21:01:30Z 2019-10-22T21:01:30Z 2019-09 Journal Article The Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32603 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Ghana
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topic PERSONALITY TRAIT
NONCOGNITIVE SKILL
TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY
RICE FARMER
SMALLHOLDER FARM
spellingShingle PERSONALITY TRAIT
NONCOGNITIVE SKILL
TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY
RICE FARMER
SMALLHOLDER FARM
Ali, Daniel Ayalew
Brown, Derick
Deininger, Klaus
Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana
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Ghana
description Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labor 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.
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author Ali, Daniel Ayalew
Brown, Derick
Deininger, Klaus
author_facet Ali, Daniel Ayalew
Brown, Derick
Deininger, Klaus
author_sort Ali, Daniel Ayalew
title Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana
title_short Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana
title_full Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana
title_fullStr Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana
title_full_unstemmed Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana
title_sort personality traits, technology adoption, and technical efficiency : evidence from smallholder rice farms in ghana
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2019
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32603
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