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 ski...

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Main Authors:	Ali, Daniel Ayalew, Bowen, Derick, Deininger, Klaus
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	personality traits noncognitive skills technology adoption technical efficiency rice farmers
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/727211486054089844/Personality-traits-technology-adoption-and-technical-efficiency-evidence-from-smallholder-rice-farms-in-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26019

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spelling	okr-10986-260192021-06-08T14:42:47Z Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana Ali, Daniel Ayalew Bowen, Derick Deininger, Klaus personality traits noncognitive skills technology adoption technical efficiency rice farmers 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. 2017-02-08T21:03:35Z 2017-02-08T21:03:35Z 2017-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/727211486054089844/Personality-traits-technology-adoption-and-technical-efficiency-evidence-from-smallholder-rice-farms-in-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26019 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7959 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Ghana
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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 Bowen, Derick Deininger, Klaus
author_facet	Ali, Daniel Ayalew Bowen, Derick Deininger, Klaus
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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	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/727211486054089844/Personality-traits-technology-adoption-and-technical-efficiency-evidence-from-smallholder-rice-farms-in-Ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26019
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Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency : Evidence from Smallholder Rice Farms in Ghana

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