Inefficiency of Male and Female Labor Supply in Agricultural Households: Evidence from Uganda

American Journal of Agricultural Economics - Tập 97 Số 3 - Trang 998-1019 - 2015
Martyn Andrews1, Jennifer Golan1, Jann Lay2
1Development Economics University of Manchester UK
2Research Program “Development and Globalization” GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, University of Göttingen Hamburg Germany

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AbstractThis article analyzes the efficiency of the intra‐household allocation of female and male labor inputs in agricultural production. In a collective household model, spouses’ optimal on‐farm labor supply is such that the marginal rate of technical substitution between male and female labor is equated over different crops. Using the Uganda National Household Survey 2005/06, we test whether this condition holds by estimating production functions and controlling for endogeneity using a method proposed by Gandhi, Navarro, and Rivers (2009). We find that women are less productive than men, that there is more female labor input on low productivity parcels, and that men are relatively more productive on female‐controlled plots compared with male‐controlled plots. Total farm output could be higher and Pareto improvements could be possible if male labor was reallocated to female‐controlled plots and/or female labor was reallocated to male‐controlled plots.

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American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Tập 97 Số 3

998-1019

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