Research article2019Peer reviewedOpen access
Spatial spillovers and households’ involvement in the non-farm sector: evidence from rural Rwanda.
Nilsson, Pia
Abstract
This paper tests for external effects of local economic activity on non-farm income using survey data from Rwanda. The empirical analysis uses a random sample of 8071 households and a multilevel model to mitigate correlations between individual outcomes and geographical variables. Findings show a positive association between a higher initial local diversity of economic activity and non-farm earnings. Results also point to the importance of access to markets and services indicating that an important part of a household's capacity to earn non-farm income is associated with factors that are external to the household.
Keywords
Rwanda; non-farm; spatial spillovers; industry diversity; multilevel
Published in
Regional Studies
2019, Volume: 53, number: 5, pages: 731-740
UKÄ Subject classification
Economics
Publication identifier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2018.1482415
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/114082