Forced Displacement and Technology Adoption: an Empirical Analysis based on Agricultural Households in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mathieu Sanch-Maritan () and Lionel Védrine ()
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Mathieu Sanch-Maritan: EconomiX - EconomiX - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: We use the Bosnian Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) survey to show that conflict-induced displacement of agricultural households affects dramatically the adoption of new technologies in agriculture. We exploit the heterogeneity in the level of violence in the pre-war location to account for the selection bias. This natural experiment seems to be a source of exogenous variation in our case because violence aims to ethnic cleansing, without economic consideration. We find that displaced are less likely than stayers to adopt fertilizer and pesticide.

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Date: 2018
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Published in The Journal of Development Studies, 2018

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