Crossbred cow adoption and its correlates: Countable adoption specification search in Sri Lanka's small holder dairy sector
提出了可数采用规范(不同于传统二元选择模型),并用贝叶斯方法统一了农业采用研究,以斯里兰卡小农乳业中杂交奶牛的采用为例展示其应用。
Abstract Considerable specification choice confronts countable adoption investigations and there is need to measure, formally, the evidence in favor of competing formulations. This article presents alternative countable adoption specifications—hitherto neglected in the agricultural‐economics literature—and assesses formally their usefulness to practitioners. Reference to the left side of de Finetti's (1937) famous representation theorem motivates Bayesian unification of agricultural adoption studies and facilitates comparisons with conventional binary‐choice specifications. Such comparisons have not previously been considered. The various formulations and the specific techniques are highlighted in an application to crossbred cow adoption in Sri Lanka's small‐holder dairy sector.