Long-term Agricultural Productivity and Religious Conflict:Evidence from India

Saini Das

Applied Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 29, issue 14, 1336-1341

Abstract: This paper studies the association between agricultural productivity and religious riots in a setting of an abrupt productivity increase in India. I find heterogeneity in the impacts of the gains across different crop regions. Crop cultivation methods determine the differential allocation of labour to the conflict and agricultural sectors. I show that in the labour-intensive rice growing regions there was a decline in conflict while in the capital-intensive wheat growing regions there was not.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2021.1929819

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