18 February, 2018: The Research and Publications(R & P) office, at IIM Bangalore, will host a seminar titled, ‘How Intensity of Exposure to an Innovation Affects Patterns of Adoption and Impacts: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh on the System of Rice Intensification’, by Debayan Pakrashi, from IIT Kanpur, on February 22 (Friday), in Classroom P22 from 2:30 pm onwards.
An abstract from the paper indicates that the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a set of rice management practices, has demonstrated dramatic potential for increasing rice yields in observational studies across Africa and Asia. The researchers study the adoption, impact and dis-adoption of SRI using a detailed dataset from the first repeated large-scale randomized controlled trial with randomized exposure intensity from rural Bangladesh. They find that SRI training has significant, positive effects on SRI uptake, rice yields/profits and household well-being. The effects of SRI adoption on rice yields (21-24%), profits (17-19%)and other multiple indicators of household welfare are positive and large. Repeated training is also found to induce more farmers to adopt the SRI and less to dis-adopt. Their findings also indicate that diffusion of SRI is nonetheless modest, about 12% adoption over two years among untreated farmers in treatment villages.
Debayan Pakrashi is an applied micro-economist interested in Behavioral Economics, Health Economics and Economic Development. His current research focuses on labour market outcomes, impact of micro credit programs on household decision-making, the role of peer effects and social networks in technology adoption and diffusion and the socioeconomic determinants of health, mental health and life satisfaction. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Prior to joining IIT Kanpur, he was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Research Scholar working on the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project under the supervision of Professor Paul Frijters in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland.
18 February, 2018: The Research and Publications(R & P) office, at IIM Bangalore, will host a seminar titled, ‘How Intensity of Exposure to an Innovation Affects Patterns of Adoption and Impacts: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh on the System of Rice Intensification’, by Debayan Pakrashi, from IIT Kanpur, on February 22 (Friday), in Classroom P22 from 2:30 pm onwards.
An abstract from the paper indicates that the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), a set of rice management practices, has demonstrated dramatic potential for increasing rice yields in observational studies across Africa and Asia. The researchers study the adoption, impact and dis-adoption of SRI using a detailed dataset from the first repeated large-scale randomized controlled trial with randomized exposure intensity from rural Bangladesh. They find that SRI training has significant, positive effects on SRI uptake, rice yields/profits and household well-being. The effects of SRI adoption on rice yields (21-24%), profits (17-19%)and other multiple indicators of household welfare are positive and large. Repeated training is also found to induce more farmers to adopt the SRI and less to dis-adopt. Their findings also indicate that diffusion of SRI is nonetheless modest, about 12% adoption over two years among untreated farmers in treatment villages.
Debayan Pakrashi is an applied micro-economist interested in Behavioral Economics, Health Economics and Economic Development. His current research focuses on labour market outcomes, impact of micro credit programs on household decision-making, the role of peer effects and social networks in technology adoption and diffusion and the socioeconomic determinants of health, mental health and life satisfaction. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Prior to joining IIT Kanpur, he was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Research Scholar working on the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project under the supervision of Professor Paul Frijters in the School of Economics at the University of Queensland.