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SUMMARY:Development and political economy seminar - Frederick Noack
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DESCRIPTION:The low productivity of agriculture in developing countries is 
 commonly explained by the oversupply of rural labor and lack of modern agri
 cultural technologies. While some agricultural technologies are labor augme
 nting\, many others are land augmenting. We use detailed household panel da
 ta from India to estimate the impact of rural-urban migration on technology
  adoption\, food production\, and the spatial distribution of agriculture. 
 We focus on technologies such as fertilizer\, modern crop varieties and irr
 igation\, which are highly relevant for agricultural productivity but may b
 e complementary to rural labor. Rural-urban labor migration reduces agricu
 ltural technology adoption in India\, in stark contrast to the developed wo
 rld experience where mechanization replaced labor in the 20th century. This
  finding is largely driven by technology divestment on larger farms that ar
 e more labor constrained and less liquidity constrained. We establish these
  results with three decades of population and agricultural census data. As 
 urbanization gathers pace in India\, our findings do not imply that food wi
 ll become scarce: We show that the rural workforce is growing despite rural
  out-migration and that there is spatial redistribution of production to di
 stricts with less out-migration.\\n\\nContact: Timothée Demont : timothee
 .demont[at]univ-amu.frEva Raiber : eva.raiber[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'inf
 ormations: https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/fr/evenements/frederick-noack-1
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CONTACT:Timothée Demont :&nbsp\;timothee.demont[at]univ-amu.frEva Raiber :
 &nbsp\;eva.raiber[at]univ-amu.fr
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