Florence Kondylis|Valerie Mueller|Jessica Zhu
Seeing is believing? Evidence from an extension network experiment
World Bank Group|International Food Policy Research Institute|Agricultural & Applied Economics Association|University of Wisconsin–Madison
extension designed enable labtofarm technology diffusion decentralized models assume information flows researchers extension workers extension agents contact farmers cfs cfs train farmers communities modality may fail address informational inefficiencies accountability issues run field experiment measure impact augmenting cf model direct cf training diffusion new technology villages cfs access extension network treatment villages cfs additionally receive threeday central training new technology track information transmission two nodes extension network extension agents cfs cfs farmers directly training cfs leads large statistically significant increase adoption among cfs however higher levels cf adoption limited impact behavior farmers