I study the effect of the expulsion of skilled farmers on the agricultural sector by looking at 20th century Libya. Numerous Italian farms were established in colonial Libya during the the 1920s and 30s. These were expropriated and Italian landowners expelled in two steps: from Cyrenaica (East) in 1942, and from Tripolitania (West) in 1970. I employ a triple difference design on a newly assembled district-level dataset to study the effect of these expulsions on the agricultural sector. The

Tag-uri: Agricultura