@article{29596155cfad459783d268feed7b2368,
title = "Price information, inter-village networks, and “bargaining spillovers”: Experimental evidence from Ghana",
abstract = "Through a randomized experiment and detailed data on inter-village communication, we identify the impact of providing commodity price information to smallholder farmers. For yam, a crop with high prevalence of bargaining, the intervention leads to a 9% increase in the prices received by farmers in the treatment group in the first year and possibly to mixed indirect effects in the second year in areas with high density of treatment. While control farmers do not gain price information, we speculate that bargaining spillovers might lead to indirect benefits and capture this intuition in a formal model. The intervention has no impact on other crops grown in the area, which are characterized by different market structures and lower incidence of bargaining. The results expand our understanding of the market structure characteristics that affect the effectiveness of ICT interventions and highlight the importance of considering longer-run inter-village spillover effects.",
keywords = "Agriculture, Bargaining, Externalities, ICTs, Networks, Price information",
author = "Emilia Soldani and Nicole Hildebrandt and Yaw Nyarko and Giorgia Romagnoli",
note = "Funding Information: All authors except the first one are in alphabetical order. We are grateful to NYU and the NYU-Abu Dhabi Research Institute for generous financial funding, without which this project could not have taken place. Professor Nyarko thanks the International Growth Center (IGC) and Anonymous Donors for financial support for this research over the years. We are also extremely grateful to Isaac Boateng, the team at Esoko, and our field interviewers for logistical support. We thank Jenny Aker, Hunt Allcott, William Easterly, Marcel Fafchamps, Raquel Fern{\'a}ndez, Nancy Qian, Debraj Ray as well as numerous seminar and conference participants and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and discussion. Christina Poppe and Kathryn McDonald provided excellent research assistance. Funding Information: All authors except the first one are in alphabetical order. We are grateful to NYU and the NYU-Abu Dhabi Research Institute for generous financial funding, without which this project could not have taken place. Professor Nyarko thanks the International Growth Center (IGC) and Anonymous Donors for financial support for this research over the years. We are also extremely grateful to Isaac Boateng, the team at Esoko, and our field interviewers for logistical support. We thank Jenny Aker, Hunt Allcott, William Easterly, Marcel Fafchamps, Raquel Fern{\'a}ndez, Nancy Qian, Debraj Ray as well as numerous seminar and conference participants and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and discussion. Christina Poppe and Kathryn McDonald provided excellent research assistance. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Elsevier B.V.",
year = "2023",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103100",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "164",
journal = "Journal of Development Economics",
issn = "0304-3878",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}