Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India
Evaluations of agricultural technologies rarely consider how adoption may alter the labor allocation of different household members. We examine intrahousehold decision-making dynamics that shape smallholder agricultural households' decision to hire in mechanical rice transplanting (MRT), a technolog...
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| author | Gulati, Kajal Ward, Patrick S. Lybbert, Travis J. Spielman, David J. |
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| description | Evaluations of agricultural technologies rarely consider how adoption may alter the labor allocation of different household members. We examine intrahousehold decision-making dynamics that shape smallholder agricultural households' decision to hire in mechanical rice transplanting (MRT), a technology that reduces demand for labor. To study the adoption decision, we employ an experimental approach to estimating the willingness-to-pay for MRT services, both at the level of individual men and women within the same households, as well as at the overall household level. We find that women value MRT more than men, but this difference in valuation is not driven by differences in their individual characteristics, but primarily by differences in preferences. Although women value MRT more than men, they have less influence over the ultimate technology adoption decision. In households with women working as outside hired laborers, the intrahousehold differences in MRT valuation disappear, suggesting that women value MRT as a means of reallocating on-farm labor to other unpaid family work. Labor-saving mechanization, such as MRT, may have important implications for rural labor markets and on the (gendered) division of labor within agricultural households. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1472852025-11-06T06:11:15Z Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India Gulati, Kajal Ward, Patrick S. Lybbert, Travis J. Spielman, David J. intrahousehold relations transplanting allocation gender technology oryza rice demand labour labour allocation agriculture labour productivity labour-saving technologies mechanization Evaluations of agricultural technologies rarely consider how adoption may alter the labor allocation of different household members. We examine intrahousehold decision-making dynamics that shape smallholder agricultural households' decision to hire in mechanical rice transplanting (MRT), a technology that reduces demand for labor. To study the adoption decision, we employ an experimental approach to estimating the willingness-to-pay for MRT services, both at the level of individual men and women within the same households, as well as at the overall household level. We find that women value MRT more than men, but this difference in valuation is not driven by differences in their individual characteristics, but primarily by differences in preferences. Although women value MRT more than men, they have less influence over the ultimate technology adoption decision. In households with women working as outside hired laborers, the intrahousehold differences in MRT valuation disappear, suggesting that women value MRT as a means of reallocating on-farm labor to other unpaid family work. Labor-saving mechanization, such as MRT, may have important implications for rural labor markets and on the (gendered) division of labor within agricultural households. 2019-10-30 2024-06-21T09:12:55Z 2024-06-21T09:12:55Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147285 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153543 https://doi.org/10.2499/1032568654 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133260 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Gulati, Kajal; Ward, Patrick S.; Lybbert, Travis J.; and Spielman, David J. 2019. Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1880. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147285 |
| spellingShingle | intrahousehold relations transplanting allocation gender technology oryza rice demand labour labour allocation agriculture labour productivity labour-saving technologies mechanization Gulati, Kajal Ward, Patrick S. Lybbert, Travis J. Spielman, David J. Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India |
| title | Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India |
| title_full | Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India |
| title_fullStr | Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India |
| title_short | Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India |
| title_sort | intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor saving agricultural technology the case of mechanical rice transplanting in india |
| topic | intrahousehold relations transplanting allocation gender technology oryza rice demand labour labour allocation agriculture labour productivity labour-saving technologies mechanization |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147285 |
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