论文标题
一个新想法的痛苦：晚开花者对埃塞俄比亚农村地区的扩展服务有反应吗？
The pain of a new idea: Do Late Bloomers response to Extension Service in Rural Ethiopia?
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论文摘要
该论文分析了1994年至2004年之间埃塞俄比亚采用化肥在采用化肥的效率。肥料采用提供了一项合适的策略，以确保和稳定偏远弱势群体的粮食生产。扩展服务计划在支持肥料的施用方面有很长的历史。但是，他们的效率受到质疑。在我们的分析中，我们专注于七个村庄的肥料扩散时间滞后。使用匹配技术，可以避免在经过处理的（家庭接受扩展服务）和受控家庭的比较时选择样品选择偏差。除了共同的因素外，由种族和宗教所代表的文化衡量标准，旨在控制延伸代理和农民之间的潜在紧张局势，从而妨碍该计划的效率。我们发现扩展服务对第一次肥料采用的影响很大。在七个村庄中的五个中，影响是一致的。
The paper analyses the efficiency of extension programs in the adoption of chemical fertilisers in Ethiopia between 1994 and 2004. Fertiliser adoption provides a suitable strategy to ensure and stabilize food production in remote vulnerable areas. Extension services programs have a long history in supporting the application of fertiliser. How-ever, their efficiency is questioned. In our analysis, we focus on seven villages with a considerable time lag in fertiliser diffusion. Using matching techniques avoids sample selection bias in the comparison of treated (households received extension service) and controlled households. Additionally to common factors, measures of culture, proxied by ethnicity and religion, aim to control for potential tensions between extension agents and peasants that hamper the efficiency of the program. We find a considerable impact of extension service on the first fertiliser adoption. The impact is consistent for five of seven villages.
