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Title
Impact of Human Resource Development Training on Crop Damages by Wild Animals in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Rural Pakistan
Creator
Creator Name
Kurosaki, Takashi Kurosaki, Takashi
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Creator Name
Khan, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Hidayat Ullah
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Kohat University of Science and Technology
Key Word
wild animal attack
production risk
randomized controlled trial
cost-benefit analysis
Pakistan
JEL
O13
O15
Q12
Abstract
Based on a four-year panel dataset of households collected in rural Pakistan, we examine the impact of an intervention on households’capacity to reduce income losses due to attacks by wild boars. A local NGO implemented the intervention as a randomized controlled trial at the beginning of the second year. We find that the intervention was highly effective in eliminating the crop-income loss in the second year, but that effects disappeared in the third and fourth years. Our finding suggests the difficulty in technology transfer through the training or the high implicit cost incurred by the households in implementing the treatment. Therefore, the intervention was not sustainable at the household level. Nevertheless, due to spillover effects, the intervention could have been cost-effective at the project level.
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2014-08
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series ; No. 59
Number of Pages
30
Sponsorship
基盤研究(S) = Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
Appears in Collections
PRIMCED Discussion Paper Series
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/26821