Intergenerational Bargaining in Technology Adoption

Technology Adoption, Risk, and Intrahousehold Bargaining in Subsistence Agriculture

Leveraging unique data from four villages in Southern Ghana (Goldstein and Udry, 1999), we present and test a theoretical model where agents in a two-person agricultural household make individual portfolio allocations while looking forward to an intrahousehold bargaining process. The specific context is that of subsistence agriculture where individuals within households farm separate plots but ...

Bargaining Power, Parental Caregiving, and Intergenerational Coresidence.

OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of changes in parent-child coresidence on caregiving decisions of non-resident siblings over a 5-year period while controlling for characteristics of the elderly parent and adult children in the family network. METHOD We use difference-in-difference models applied to Health and Retirement Study-Assets and Health Dynamics of the Elderly data to test the hypothes...

Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-b...

Strategic Technology Adoption under Technological Uncertainty

Technology Adoption in Shariah Courts

Information and communication technogies have led to dynamic changes in the way courts of law perform thier duty to deliver justice. Courts of law depend on the availability, comprehensiveness and quality of information relating to the case in reaching a conclusive and fair verdict. Courts will not be able to deliver justice in the cases where records are not properly managed; thus, depriving t...