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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda / Maria Jones, Florence Kondylis, John Loeser, Jeremy Magruder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Maria.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26698.
- NBER working paper series no. w26698
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We leverage 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%. 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%. 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- January 2020.
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