Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda

This study explores the behavioral learning characteristics of smallholder female farmers in Uganda by quantifying the amount of information learned under different incentive schemes. The paper shows how competitive versus team incentives compare in motivating Ugandan farmers to learn and share info...

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Main Authors:	Vasilaky, Kathryn N., Islam, Asif M.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2018
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL TRAINING LEARNING COMPETITION FEMALE FARMERS TEAM INCENTIVES EXTENSION TRAINING GROUP LEARNING
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29323

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spelling	okr-10986-293232021-05-25T10:54:44Z Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda Vasilaky, Kathryn N. Islam, Asif M. AGRICULTURAL TRAINING LEARNING COMPETITION FEMALE FARMERS TEAM INCENTIVES EXTENSION TRAINING GROUP LEARNING This study explores the behavioral learning characteristics of smallholder female farmers in Uganda by quantifying the amount of information learned under different incentive schemes. The paper shows how competitive versus team incentives compare in motivating Ugandan farmers to learn and share information relevant to adopting a new agricultural technology. We find that tournament-based incentives provide greater outcomes in terms of total information learned than threshold-based team incentives. Furthermore the order of the incentive – whether the tournament precedes or follows the team incentive scheme – does not affect the volume of information learned. New information introduced between rounds was learned by more individuals under team incentives than under tournament incentives. The study provides direct practical policy recommendations for improving learning in the context of agriculture in Uganda. 2018-02-06T19:23:51Z 2018-02-06T19:23:51Z 2018-03 Journal Article World Development 0305-750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29323 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Uganda
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topic	AGRICULTURAL TRAINING LEARNING COMPETITION FEMALE FARMERS TEAM INCENTIVES EXTENSION TRAINING GROUP LEARNING
spellingShingle	AGRICULTURAL TRAINING LEARNING COMPETITION FEMALE FARMERS TEAM INCENTIVES EXTENSION TRAINING GROUP LEARNING Vasilaky, Kathryn N. Islam, Asif M. Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda
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description	This study explores the behavioral learning characteristics of smallholder female farmers in Uganda by quantifying the amount of information learned under different incentive schemes. The paper shows how competitive versus team incentives compare in motivating Ugandan farmers to learn and share information relevant to adopting a new agricultural technology. We find that tournament-based incentives provide greater outcomes in terms of total information learned than threshold-based team incentives. Furthermore the order of the incentive – whether the tournament precedes or follows the team incentive scheme – does not affect the volume of information learned. New information introduced between rounds was learned by more individuals under team incentives than under tournament incentives. The study provides direct practical policy recommendations for improving learning in the context of agriculture in Uganda.
format	Journal Article
author	Vasilaky, Kathryn N. Islam, Asif M.
author_facet	Vasilaky, Kathryn N. Islam, Asif M.
author_sort	Vasilaky, Kathryn N.
title	Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda
title_short	Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda
title_full	Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda
title_fullStr	Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda
title_full_unstemmed	Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda
title_sort	competition or cooperation? : using team and tournament incentives for learning among female farmers in rural uganda
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2018
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29323
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Competition or Cooperation? : Using Team and Tournament Incentives for Learning among Female Farmers in Rural Uganda

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