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Linking risk aversion, time preference and fertilizer use in Burkina Faso

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This paper investigates whether Burkinabe maize farmers’ fertilizer-use decisionsare correlated with their risk and time preferences. We conducted a survey and a se-ries of hypothetical experiments on a sample of 1,500 farmers. We find that morepatient farmers do use more fertilizer, but it is only because they plant more maize (afertilizer-intensive crop) rather than because they use more fertilizer per hectare ofmaize planted. Conversely, we find no statistically significant link between risk aver-sion and fertilizer use. We use a simple two-period model, which suggests that riskaversion may indeed have an ambiguous effect on fertilizer use.
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hal-01429099 , version 1 (06-01-2017)

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  • HAL Id : hal-01429099 , version 1
  • PRODINRA : 384500

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Tristan Le Cotty, Elodie Maître d'Hôtel, Raphael Soubeyran, Julie Subervie. Linking risk aversion, time preference and fertilizer use in Burkina Faso. 2017. ⟨hal-01429099⟩
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