Social interaction and technology adoption: Experimental evidence from improved cookstoves in Mali

Jacopo Bonan; Jacopo Daniele Bonan; Pietro Battiston; Jaimie Bleck; Philippe Lemay-Boucher; Stefano Pareglio; Bassirou Sarr; Massimo Tavoni

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105467

Social interaction and technology adoption: Experimental evidence from improved cookstoves in Mali

Jacopo Bonan^*, Jacopo Daniele Bonan^*, Pietro Battiston, Jaimie Bleck, Philippe Lemay-Boucher, Stefano Pareglio, Bassirou Sarr, Massimo Tavoni

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Easy-to-use and low-risk technologies, which require little investment and potentially provide health and environmental benefits, often have low adoption rates. Using a randomized experiment in urban Mali, we assess the impact of a training session in which information on an improved cookstove (ICS) is provided along with the opportunity to purchase the product at the market price. We find strong effects from our invitation to the session on ICS ownership and usage while no discernible effects on product knowledge or household welfare. We find that some diffusion occurs beyond the intervention and provide evidence on the role of social interaction, mostly through imitation

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	N/A-N/A
Journal	World Development
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105467
Publication status	Published - 2021

Keywords

Cookstoves Mali
Imitation effects
Social Interaction
Technology adoption

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