The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil

Yuri Barreto and Rodrigo Oliveira

No wp-2022-175, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of Bahia state in the northeast of Brazil. Although the introduction of the disease had political motivations, it had unintended effects on poor people's lives.

Keywords: Education; Wages; Agriculture; Terrorism; Child labour; Shocks; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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