Jacopo Ponticelli

Jacopo Ponticelli is Associate Professor of Finance at Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, and a research fellow at the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) and the CEPR (Centre for Economic and Policy Research). He is an applied economist who primarily studies corporate finance and development economics. His research interests include law and finance, financial development, and economic growth. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. Before joining Kellogg, he served as an Assistant Professor of Finance, and Cohen and Keenoy Scholar at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Ponticelli holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी को अपनाना तथा उत्पादकता: भारतीय कृषि में मोबाइल फोन की भूमिका
2000 के दशक के मध्य और उत्तरार्ध के दौरान भारत ने ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में मोबाइल फोन कवरेज का विस्तार किया और कृषि संबंधी सलाह लेने वाले किसानों के लिए निशुल्क कॉल सेंटर सेवाओं की शुरुआत की। इस लेख से ज्ञात होता है कि इन कार्यक्रमों ने कृषि क्षेत्र में अधिक उन्नत प्रौद्योगिकियों को अपनाने और उत्पादकता बढ़ाने में मदद की। हालांकि ऐसा प्रतीत होता है कि कृषि सलाह की पहुंच में भाषा संबंधी बाधाओं ने अलग-अलग क्षेत्रों में किसानों के बीच असमानता को बढ़ाया है।

Information technology adoption and productivity: Role of mobile phones in Indian agriculture
During mid to late 2000s, India expanded mobile phone coverage across rural areas and introduced free-of-charge call centre services for farmers seeking agricultural advice. This article shows that these programmes helped increase the take-up of more advanced technologies and raised productivity of the agricultural sector. However, language barriers in the access of agricultural advice appear to increase disparities among farmers in different areas.
