Joint Adoption of Microcomputer Technologies: An Analysis of Farmers' Decisions

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1991-08-01
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Huffman, Wallace
Mercier, Stephanie
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This study presents an econometric examination of the joint decisions of farmers on the adoption of a microcomputer and (or) purchased computers services. The characteristics of a farmer-schooling, age, off-farm work-are shown to be important variables for explaining the odds of adopting purchased computers services only, a microcomputer only, and both computer technologies. Adoption of computer technologies seems to occur in farming operations where they can be expected to greatly enhance the efficiency.

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This article is from The Review of Economics and Statistics 73 (1991): 541, doi: 10.2307/2109583.

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