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 …

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 …

employment and the reduction in the gender gap in education in recent years …

-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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …