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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Cambridge University Press
2016
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| author | Van Campenhout, Bjorn |
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| description | 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 agricultural labor supply and production in Uganda, which has a dominant agricultural sector and high fertility. We find that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with lower fertility devote significantly more time to land preparation and weeding; larger households grow less matooke and sweet potatoes. We find no significant effect on agricultural productivity in terms of yield per land area. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1476222025-02-24T06:45:55Z Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda Van Campenhout, Bjorn fertility households labor supply labour productivity 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 agricultural labor supply and production in Uganda, which has a dominant agricultural sector and high fertility. We find that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with lower fertility devote significantly more time to land preparation and weeding; larger households grow less matooke and sweet potatoes. We find no significant effect on agricultural productivity in terms of yield per land area. 2016-11-28 2024-06-21T09:23:06Z 2024-06-21T09:23:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147622 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149375 Open Access Cambridge University Press Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2016. Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 45(3): 581 - 607. https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2016.26 |
| spellingShingle | fertility households labor supply labour productivity Van Campenhout, Bjorn Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda |
| title | Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda |
| title_full | Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda |
| title_short | Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda |
| title_sort | fertility agricultural labor supply and production instrumental variable evidence from uganda |
| topic | fertility households labor supply labour productivity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147622 |
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