Women’s empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmer households in western Kenya

This paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Applying a cross-sectional instrumental-variable regression...

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Main Authors:	Dirro, Gracious M., Seymour, Greg, Kassie, Menale, Muricho, Geoffrey, Muriithi, Beatrice Wambui
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Public Library of Science 2018
Subjects:	gender maize empowerment smallholders productivity rural development yields food security growth women
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146114