Title
Sweeping the flies away: evidence from a fruit fly eradication program
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
Journal
Author(s)
Abstract
This article evaluates the short-term impacts of a fruit fly integrated pest management program in Peru. Exploiting arbitrary variation in the program's intervention borders, we use a geographical regression discontinuity design to identify the program's effects on agricultural outcomes. Pre-treatment balance tests show that producer and farm-level pre-treatment characteristics evolve smoothly at the intervention border. Results indicate that farmers within treated areas improved pest knowledge and are more likely to implement prevention and control practices. Also, they increased fruit production and sales. Our findings are confirmed by placebo tests and are robust to alternative regression discontinuity bandwidths and polynomials.
Start page
1920
End page
1962
Volume
47
Issue
5
OCDE Knowledge area
Agricultura
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85097506873
Source
European Review of Agricultural Economics
Resource of which it is part
European Review of Agricultural Economics
ISSN of the container
01651587
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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