Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda

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dc.creatorJones, Maria Ruth
dc.creatorKondylis, Florence
dc.creatorLoeser, John Ashton
dc.creatorMagruder, Jeremy
dc.date2019-12-19T17:54:04Z
dc.date2019-12-19T17:54:04Z
dc.date2019-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:38:13Z
dc.descriptionThis 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.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/496531576687282363/Factor-Market-Failures-and-the-Adoption-of-Irrigation-in-Rwanda
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33061
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-9092
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/407932
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper; 9092
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectTECHNOLOGY ADOPTION
dc.subjectIRRIGATION
dc.subjectMARKET FAILURES
dc.subjectHORTICULTURE
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.titleFactor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
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