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agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with … mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual … negative effects on children were found. The study debunks some myths related to gender roles in African smallholder …
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individuals' work activities. The problem is further complicated by the presence of widespread gender stratification of work and …
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We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms...
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Using detailed monthly panel data from rural India, this paper analyzes sectoral wage gaps for men and women. I document three important findings. First, there is clear evidence of sorting into sectors, with very large differences in worker human capital across the farm and non-farm sectors and...
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We analyze the gender price gap (GPG) in Central Kenyan vegetable markets. Exploiting differences in the combination of … the gender of the household head, the person controlling production, and the seller, we control for other gender related …
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This paper analyses the implication of contract farming on gender inequalities in rural Mozambique. Contract farming is …-05) collected by the Mozambican Ministry of Agriculture among a nationally representative sample of rural households to explore … contracts' implications for gender equality, both across and within households. We look both at the participation of female …
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The gender gap is a key policy issue across the economic sectors, including agriculture. While the Philippines has … implications, related to promoting gender equality in daily pay in agriculture. …--in general--made considerable progress in addressing the gender gap, gender gap in average wages remains a key concern in the …
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