Microeconomics of technology adoption

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 395-424

  Foster, Andrew D ^a   Rosenzweig, Mark R ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Education; Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952583018     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124433     Document Type: Article

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