Weather information for smallholders: Evidence from a pilot field experiment in Benin
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Keywords
Pilot field experiment; climate and weather information; labor productivity; smallholder farming; information technology; impact evaluation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2022-02-07 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2022-02-07 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENV-2022-02-07 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2022-02-07 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-ICT-2022-02-07 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-LMA-2022-02-07 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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