Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania

We are grateful to Sheah Deilami-Nugent and David Roughgarden for outstanding work coordinating field activities, and BRAC Tanzania and IPA Tanzania for administrative support. We thank Patrick Olobo for his collaboration. Anouk Faure, Petra Gram, Matthew Krupoff and Alexandra Murphy provided excellent research assistance. We thank three anonymous referees, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Shoumitro Chatterjee, Denise Horner, Alain de Janvry, Betty Sadoulet, and many seminar participants for helpful comments. We acknowledge funding from the IGC (grant 1-VRC-VTZA-VXXXX-89307), the National Science Foundation (SES 1658942), Innovations for Poverty Action, ISB and UCSC. The data collection protocol was approved by the IRBs of UCSC and the Indian School of Business and by the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH). The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

A supplemental appendix is available online at https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01263.