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This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in C?te d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using … decomposition methods. The analysis finds that the unconditional gender gap between male- and female-headed households has decreased … by 14 percent over the past decade. The conditional gender gap has decreased by 32 percent and becomes statistically …
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While scholars agree on the importance of land rental markets for structural transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent and nature of their operation, including potential obstacles to their improved functioning, remains limited. This study uses household-level data from six countries...
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less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male counterparts. These gender differences in land productivity … and participation between male and female farmers are due to gender differences in access to inputs, resources, and … services. In this paper, the authors review the evidence on productivity differences and access to resources. They discuss some …
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employment and the reduction in the gender gap in education in recent years …
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The paper estimates the rates of return to investment in education in Egypt, allowing for multiple sources of heterogeneity across individuals. The paper finds that, in the period 1998-2006, returns to education increased for workers with higher education, but fell for workers with intermediate...
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-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively?affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The … paper develops a theoretical model that decomposes the contribution of various market imperfections to the gender … productivity gap. The paper shows empirically that agricultural labor productivity is on average 44 percent lower on plots managed …
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on average 20 to 30 percent less productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate productivity loss, the … country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using national data from the Uganda National … methods were combined with an Oaxaca decomposition to investigate the gender differences in resource endowment and return to …
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matters as well; however, the measured productivity gap between male and female farmers disappears when gender is included in …African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to … to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male and female farmers has been …
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agriculture is characterized by low performance and its productivity growth has been identified as a key driver of poverty … reduction. In Niger, as in many other African countries, productivity is even lower among female peasants. To build policy … interventions to improve agricultural productivity among women, it is important to measure the potential gap between men and women …
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agricultural productivity. The empirical studies on the gender gap, however, have frequently used data that were limited regarding … agricultural productivity distribution into (i) a portion driven by gender differences in levels of observable attributes (the …In targeting poverty gains, sub-Saharan African governments have emphasized the alleviation of gender differences in …
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