Labor‐saving and income‐increasing technologies may affect women farmers differently from men. However, very few studies explicitly account for women's preferences for new technologies. We carried out a discrete choice experiment with 337 female and 329 male farmers in Maharashtra, India, to measure their willingness to pay (WTP) for direct‐seeded rice (DSR) with drum seeder and to understand the gender differences in marginal valuations of key attributes. We used the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to collect self‐reported data on the role and say of women in different domains of decision making. The respective gender roles of women and men in the family and on the farm are aligned with their preferences. Men have a greater say over how the family spends the cash. Accordingly, men tend to have a higher WTP for attributes that increase income (increase in yield) or reduce cash costs (reduction in seed rate). Women contribute a large share of the labor for transplanting rice, much of which is unpaid work on family farms. Women, therefore, seem to value labor saving more. Women in our sample were more interested in the new technology and had a higher WTP for it.

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男性和女性农民对增加利润和节省劳力的技术的异质性：以印度的直播水稻（DSR）为例

节省劳力和增加收入的技术可能对女性农民的影响不同于男性。但是，很少有研究明确说明妇女对新技术的偏爱。我们对印度马哈拉施特拉邦的337名女性和329名男性农民进行了离散选择实验，以衡量他们使用转鼓播种机支付的直播水稻（DSR）的支付意愿（WTP），并了解关键边际评估中的性别差异。属性。我们使用了“增强妇女权能指数”（WEAI）来收集有关妇女在决策领域中的角色和话语权的自我报告数据。家庭和农场中男女的各自性别角色与其偏好相吻合。男人对家庭如何使用现金有更大的发言权。因此，男性往往具有较高的WTP，因为这些属性会增加收入（增加产量）或减少现金成本（降低种子率）。在移栽水稻方面，妇女贡献了很大一部分劳动，其中大部分是家庭农场的无偿工作。因此，女性似乎更看重节省劳动力。我们样本中的女性对新技术更感兴趣，并且拥有更高的WTP。