Jones, Maria
[VerfasserIn]
;
Kondylis, Florence
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Loeser, John Ashton
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Magruder, Jeremy
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
Erschienen in:World Bank Policy Research Working Paper ; No. 9092
Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (103 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
Entstehung:
Anmerkungen:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments December 18, 2019 erstellt
Beschreibung:
This paper examines constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. It leverages a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 70 percent. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes farmers to substitute labor and inputs away from their other plots. Eliminating this substitution would increase adoption by at least 21 percent. Third, this substitution is largest for smaller households and wealthier households. This result can be explained by labor market failures in a standard agricultural household model