Search Costs, Intermediation, and Trade: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Agricultural Markets

We gratefully acknowledge funding from USAID/BASIS, USAID/DIL, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, awarded through the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI), the International Growth Center, the Policy Design and Evaluation Lab, and an anonymous donor. We thank IPA, Stephanie Annyas and Laza Razafimbelo for excellent project management and James Allen, Russell Morton, and Jared Stolove for excellent research assistance. We thank Paul Nyende from AgriNet and the Kudu team, including Richard Ssekibuule, Nicole Immorlica, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Brendan Lucier, Neil Newman, and John Quinn, for their partnership. This trial was registered as AEARCTR-0000749, and is covered by UCSD IRB #140744. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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