Title: Fertilizer Use in Kenya

Type Dataset Duflo, Esther, Kremer, Michael, Robinson, Jonathan (2012): Fertilizer Use in Kenya. Harvard Dataverse. Dataset. https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/YM9F07

Authors: Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Kremer, Michael (Harvard University) ; Robinson, Jonathan (University of California, Santa Cruz) ; Duflo, Esther (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ; Kremer, Michael (Harvard University) ; Robinson, Jonathan (University of California, Santa Cruz) ; Jameel Poverty Action Lab ;

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Summary

We model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer and assume some are stochastically present biased and not fully sophisticated about this bias. Such farmers may procrastinate, postponing fertilizer purchases until later periods, when they may be too impatient to purchase fertilizer. Consistent with the model, many farmers in Western Kenya fail to take advantage of apparently profitable fertilizer investments, but they do invest in response to small, time-limited discounts on the cost of acquiring fertilizer (free delivery) just after harvest. Calibration suggests that this policy can yield higher welfare than either laissez-faire policies or heavy subsidies.

More information

• DOI: 10.7910/DVN/YM9F07

Subjects

• Social Sciences

Dates

• Publication date: 2012
• Submitted: December 27, 2012
• Updated: May 03, 2019
• Collected: 2000 to 2005

Notes

Rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 1.0

Alternatetitles

• AlternativeTitle: Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Format

electronic resource

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