Indeed, two compelling questions are: (a) Is there a neighbourhood effect (i.e., a "contagion effect") in the adoption of new technologies? and (b) What is the role of the ‘neighbourhood effect’ in the impact of access to credit on technology adoption in agriculture? Against this backdrop, this paper aims to explore the relationship between technology adoption and credit access in Tanzania, while. [...] To this end, it incorporates two strands of the literature: (a) The impact of access to finance on the adoption of agricultural technology; and (b) The role of peer interaction among farmers in the diffusion of technology. [...] The closer in proximity two pieces of land are, and the more accurate the shared information is, the more accelerated the diffusion of the technology. [...] We are aware of the existence of the wave Technology adoPTion and access To cRediT in Tanzania: a sPaTial economeTRic analysis 11 from 2014-2015; however, in the 2014-2015 LSMS, the geolocation of households is not accessible to the public. [...] The direct effect of explanatory variables on the decision to adopt a technology measures the impact of a change in the explanatory variable of farmer i on their decision to adopt the technology.
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- Kenya
