@article{Sanou:205813,
      recid = {205813},
      author = {Sanou, Awa and Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O. and Shupp,  Robert},
      title = {Technology Adoption When Risk Attitudes Matter: Evidence  from Incentivized Field
Experiments in Niger},
      address = {2015},
      number = {330-2016-13905},
      pages = {47},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {Fertilizer micro-dosing is a precision fertilizer  application technique with the potential to  improve
agricultural productivity and livelihoods in the  semi- arid-tropics. Despite more than two decades
of  disseminating the technology in Niger, micro-dosing  adoption rates remain low with evidence
of dis-adoption.  Since fertilizer is a risk increasing technology, this  paper estimates the effects of
risk attitudes on fertilizer  use and the practice of micro-dosing. We use different  methods to elicit
measures of risk aversion and supplement  those with measures of aversion to ambiguity and loss.
We  find that incentivized measures of risk attitudes have  better predictive power than general
measures based on  hypothetical survey questions. Among the risk attitudes  explored, risk aversion
tends to matter in the decision to  use fertilizer and in the choice of an application  technique when
fertilizer is used. This indicates that ex  post programs like insurance could promote the use  of
fertilizer and fertilizer micro-dosing among risk averse  farmers.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/205813},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.205813},
}