Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston, Tavneet Suri and Celine Zipfel Abstract Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the innovation to spread. However, if markets are imperfectly integrated, this may also inflict negative externalities. In […]
BREAD Working Paper No. 555, July 2018
Borrowing Requirements, Credit Access, and Adverse Selection: Evidence from Kenya William Jack, Michael Kremer, Joost de Laat, Tavneet Suri Abstract Do the stringent formal sector borrowing requirements common in many developing countries restrict credit access, technology adoption, and welfare? When a Kenyan dairy’s savings and credit cooperative randomly offered some farmers the opportunity to replace […]