Microeconomics of Technology Adoption
综述了新技术采纳及互补投入使用的微观研究，分析了影响低收入国家技术扩散的多种因素，如学习、外部性、信贷约束等，对理解国家间收入差异有重要参考价值。
Differences in technology levels across countries account for a large component of the differences in wages and per-capita GDP across countries worldwide. This article reviews micro studies of the adoption of new technologies and the use of inputs complementary with new technologies to shed light on the barriers to technology diffusion in low-income countries. Among the factors examined affecting decisions pertaining to technology choice and input allocations are the financial and nonfinancial returns to adoption, one's own learning and social learning, technological externalities, scale economies, schooling, credit constraints, risk and incomplete insurance, and departures from behavioral rules implied by simple models of rationality.