Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda

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 seaso...

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Main Authors:	Jones, Maria Ruth, Kondylis, Florence, Loeser, John Ashton, Magruder, Jeremy
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION IRRIGATION MARKET FAILURES HORTICULTURE LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/496531576687282363/Factor-Market-Failures-and-the-Adoption-of-Irrigation-in-Rwanda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33061

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spelling	okr-10986-330612022-09-20T00:13:28Z Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda Jones, Maria Ruth Kondylis, Florence Loeser, John Ashton Magruder, Jeremy TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION IRRIGATION MARKET FAILURES HORTICULTURE LABOR MARKET 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. 2019-12-19T17:54:04Z 2019-12-19T17:54:04Z 2019-12 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/496531576687282363/Factor-Market-Failures-and-the-Adoption-of-Irrigation-in-Rwanda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33061 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9092 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Rwanda
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spellingShingle	TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION IRRIGATION MARKET FAILURES HORTICULTURE LABOR MARKET Jones, Maria Ruth Kondylis, Florence Loeser, John Ashton Magruder, Jeremy Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Jones, Maria Ruth Kondylis, Florence Loeser, John Ashton Magruder, Jeremy
author_facet	Jones, Maria Ruth Kondylis, Florence Loeser, John Ashton Magruder, Jeremy
author_sort	Jones, Maria Ruth
title	Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
title_short	Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
title_full	Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
title_fullStr	Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
title_full_unstemmed	Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
title_sort	factor market failures and the adoption of irrigation in rwanda
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/496531576687282363/Factor-Market-Failures-and-the-Adoption-of-Irrigation-in-Rwanda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33061
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Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda

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