Agricultural Economics 

TL;DR: A number of conceptual issues pertaining to the implementation of an explicit "spatial" perspective in applied econometrics are reviewed, both from a theory-driven as well as from a data-driven perspective.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Tobit model was used to test the hypothesis that farmer perceptions of technology-specific characteristics significantly condition technology adoption decisions, and the estimated model results show that farmers' perceptions of the technology specific attributes of the varieties are the major factors determining adoption and use intensities.

TL;DR: The modelling and estimation of frontier production functions has been an important area of econometric research during the last two decades as mentioned in this paper, and a survey of empirical applications in agricultural economics is an important part of the paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a Tobit model of modern sorghum and rice varietal technologies in Burkina Faso and Guinea was used to test the hypothesis that farmers' perceptions of technology characteristics significantly affect their adoption decisions.

TL;DR: In this article, a spatial multi-agent programming model was developed for assessing policy options in the diffusion of innovations and resource use changes in an agricultural region in Chile, where the individual choice of the farm-household among available production, consumption, investment and marketing alternatives is represented in recursive linear programming models.