Crossbred cow adoption and its correlates: countable adoption specification search in Sri Lanka's small holder dairy sector

Edirisinghe, J. C. and Holloway, G. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2058-4504 (2015) Crossbred cow adoption and its correlates: countable adoption specification search in Sri Lanka's small holder dairy sector. Agricultural Economics, 46 (S1). pp. 13-28. ISSN 0169-5150 doi: 10.1111/agec.12195

Abstract/Summary

Considerable specification choice confronts countable adoption investigations and there is need to measure, formally, the evidence in favor of competing formulations. This article presents alternative countable adoption specifications—hitherto neglected in the agricultural-economics literature—and assesses formally their usefulness to practitioners. Reference to the left side of de Finetti's (1937) famous representation theorem motivates Bayesian unification of agricultural adoption studies and facilitates comparisons with conventional binary-choice specifications. Such comparisons have not previously been considered. The various formulations and the specific techniques are highlighted in an application to crossbred cow adoption in Sri Lanka's small-holder dairy sector.

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URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/39336
Item Type	Article
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Agri-Food Economics & Marketing
Uncontrolled Keywords	Count-data adoption, specification search, Bayesian unification of agricultural adoption studies, Sri Lankan small-holder dairy sector
Publisher	Wiley
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