It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Technology Diffusion

Bogdan Hofbauer

Previous studies of peer-to-peer technology diffusion have primarily focused on the decision of potential adopters. Often equally relevant for observed diffusion is the willingness of incumbent adopters to actively share technology. In a real network of garment making firm owners in Ghana, we randomly seed training in a newly-developed weaving technique, and technique-specific, time-limited, one-time contracts. Contract offers increase both learning by potential adopters and sharing by

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