Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda
Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies sons are often preferred to daughters, we isolated exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and related...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Van Campenhout, Bjorn |
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| description | Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies sons are often preferred to daughters, we isolated exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and related it to agricultural labor supply and production outcomes in Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found 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, while larger households grow less matooke and sweet potatoes. We found no significant effect on agricultural productivity as measured in terms of yield per land area. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1493752025-11-06T06:27:15Z Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda Van Campenhout, Bjorn gender sociology fertility households labour statistics population growth Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies sons are often preferred to daughters, we isolated exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and related it to agricultural labor supply and production outcomes in Uganda—a country that combines a dominant agricultural sector with one of the highest fertility rates in the world. We found 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, while larger households grow less matooke and sweet potatoes. We found no significant effect on agricultural productivity as measured in terms of yield per land area. 2014 2024-08-01T02:49:18Z 2024-08-01T02:49:18Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149375 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149446 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155864 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161853 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2014. Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1406. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149375 |
| spellingShingle | gender sociology fertility households labour statistics population growth 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 | gender sociology fertility households labour statistics population growth |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149375 |
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