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 Faoure, Petra Gram, Matthew Krupoff and Alexandra Murphy provided excellent research assistance. We thank Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Shoumitro Chaterjee, Alain de Janvry, Betty Sadoulet and seminar participants at Ashoka University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Berkeley, ISB, LSE, the University of Maryland, NBER Trade and Agriculture Conference, NEUDC, the University of Virginia, UCSC, the University of West Virginia and, the WEAI, the University of Pittsburgh, and Stanford University 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 approval was approved by the IRBs of UCSC and the Indian School of Business, and by the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.