Gender differentials in farm productivity: Implications for household efficiancy and agricultural policy

This chapter challenges one of the main tenets of agricultural economics—that households behave as though they are single individuals, with production factors allocated efficiently between men and women. In many contexts this is a convenient and innocuous assumption. It can be quite restrictive, how...

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Main Authors: Alderman, Harold, Hoddinott, John F., Haddad, Lawrence J., Udry, Christopher R.
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2003
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157503

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