Disentangling Poor Smallholder Farmers’ Risk Preferences and Time Horizons: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
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Ethiopia; Rural poverty; Smallholder farmers; Risk behaviour; Time preference; Experimental economics;All these keywords.
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