The Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : The Role of Market Imperfections
This paper hypothesises that labour and credit market imperfections – by discouraging off-farm income-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively – affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The paper develops a theoretical model, which decomposes th...
Main Authors: | Palacios-López, Amparo, López, Ramón |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Taylor and Francis
2015
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22700 |
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