Agricultural Outputs and Conflict Displacement: Evidence from a Policy Intervention in Rwanda

37 Pages Posted: 17 Oct 2007

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Florence Kondylis

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Abstract

In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy to investigate the impact of conflict-induced displacement and the re-settlement policy on household agricultural output and on skill spill-over mechanisms between returnees and stayers. We find that returns to on-farm labour are higher for returnees relative to stayers, although the evidence suggests that the policy contributed little additional effect to this differential. More speculatively, these differentials suggest that, upon return from conflict-induced exile, returnees are more motivated to increase their economic performance.

Keywords: labour, development, conflict, Rwanda, Africa

JEL Classification: O13, O10, J00

Suggested Citation

Kondylis, Florence, Agricultural Outputs and Conflict Displacement: Evidence from a Policy Intervention in Rwanda. Economic Development and Cultural Change, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1022207

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