This study uses household-level panel data on smallholder farmers in Ethiopia to estimate how rural population density … (RPD) affects agricultural intensification and productivity. Our results suggest that higher RPD is associated with smaller …

measured by consumption expenditure in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania. The study utilizes cross-sectional farm household level … data collected in 2008 from a randomly selected sample of 1313 households (700 in Ethiopia and 613 in Tanzania). The causal … expenditure (in per adult equivalent terms) in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania. This confirms the potential role of technology …

productivity, especially highlighting how both imperfections negatively affect female productivity by discouraging off-farm income … differences in agricultural labor productivity and market imperfections and it provides empirical evidence consistent with our … productivity is on average 44 percent lower on plots belonging to female-headed households than on those belonging to male …