Going the Extra Mile: Farm Subsidies and Spatial Convergence in Agricultural Input Adoption

We are grateful to Jenny Aker for her collaboration and to Patrick Baxter, Emanuele Clemente, Calvin Mhango, Monica Shandal, Patrick Simbewe, and Asman Suleiman at IPA Malawi. USAID funded the data collection. We thank Sanjana Gupta for research assistance. We thank Justin Marion and seminar participants at UCSC for helpful comments. The data collection protocol was approved by the IRBs of the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Malawi National Committee on Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank or its affiliated organizations, its Executive Directors or the governments they represent. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.