Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda

Human fertility can affect agricultural production through its effect on supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies, sons are generally preferred to daughters, we isolate exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and relate it to the...

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Main Author: Van Campenhout, Bjorn
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge University Press 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147622

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