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dc.titleEstimating the Impacts of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program in Peru: A Geographical Regression Discontinuity Approach
dc.contributor.authorSalazar, Lina
dc.contributor.authorMaffioli, Alessandro
dc.contributor.authorAramburu, Julián
dc.contributor.authorAgurto Adrianzen, Marcos
dc.contributor.orgunitEnvironment, Rural Development Disaster Risk Management Division
dc.coveragePeru
dc.date.available2016-03-18T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2016-03-11T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we evaluate the short term impact of a Fruit Fly Eradication Program in the coastal areas of Peru. Exploiting arbitrary variation in the program's intervention borders, as well as precise geographic location data of farmer's households, we use a Geographical Regression Discontinuity (GRD) approach to identify the program's effects on agricultural outcomes. For this purpose, baseline and follow up surveys were collected for 615 households -307 treated and 308 controls- . Baseline data shows that producer and farm-level characteristics in treated and control areas are balanced. This confirms that the program's intervention borders were set only as a function of financial and logistic restrictions and independently of the pest incidence levels and/or other producer and/or farm characteristics. The results show that farmers in treated areas improved pest knowledge and are more likely to implement best practices for plague prevention and control. Beneficiary farmers also present increased fruit crops productivity and sales. The robustness of these findings is confirmed using placebo tests.
dc.format.extent40;44
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0012282
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Estimating-the-Impacts-of-a-Fruit-Fly-Eradication-Program-in-Peru-A-Geographical-Regression-Discontinuity-Approach.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Estimando-los-impactos-de-un-programa-de-erradicación-de-la-mosca-de-la-fruta-en-Perú-Un-enfoque-de-Regresión-Discontinua-Geográfica.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.relation.seriesImpact Evaluations
dc.subjectPest Control
dc.subjectAgricultural Productivity
dc.subjectProgram Evaluation
dc.subject.jelcodeO13 - Agriculture • Natural Resources • Energy • Environment • Other Primary Products
dc.subject.jelcodeQ18 - Agricultural Policy • Food Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeH41 - Public Goods
dc.subject.jelcodeO12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeQ13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing • Cooperatives • Agribusiness
dc.subject.jelcodeQ12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
dc.subject.keywordsPest control;Fruit-flies
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberWorking Papers
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