Social preferences and agricultural innovation: An experimental case study from Ethiopia

Bereket Kebede; Daniel John Zizzo

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.022

Social preferences and agricultural innovation: An experimental case study from Ethiopia

Bereket Kebede
, Daniel John Zizzo

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Abstract

We run an experiment in Ethiopia where farmers can use their own money to decrease the money of others (money burning). The data support the prediction from an inequality aversion model based on absolute income differences; but there is no support for an inequality aversion model based on comparison with mean payoff of others. Experimentally measured money burning on the village level is negatively correlated to real-life agricultural innovations. This result is robust even when data from another independent survey than the current research are used. This underscores the importance of social preferences in agricultural innovations in developing countries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	267-280
Number of pages	4
Journal	World Development
Volume	67
Early online date	20 Nov 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.10.022
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2015

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social preferences
money burning
agricultural innovations
Ethiopia

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Bereket Kebede
- B.Kebedeuea.acuk
- School of Global Development - Professor in Behavioural Economics
- Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science - Member
- Behavioural and Experimental Development Economics - Member
- Gender and Development - Member
- Impact Evaluation - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching and Research

Money burning, envy and development: An experimental case study in Ethiopia
Zizzo, D. (Principal Investigator) & Kebede, B. (Co-Investigator)
Economic and Social Research Council
1/08/08 → 31/03/10
Project: Research

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