Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda

Women comprise 50% of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but manage plots that are reportedly on average 20–30% less productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate productivity loss, the country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Usi...

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Main Authors:	Ali, Daniel, Bowen, Derick, Deininger, Klaus, Duponchel, Marguerite
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Elsevier 2016
Subjects:	gender agricultural productivity agriculture decomposition gender gaps
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25367

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spelling	okr-10986-253672021-05-25T10:54:36Z Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda Ali, Daniel Bowen, Derick Deininger, Klaus Duponchel, Marguerite gender agricultural productivity agriculture decomposition gender gaps Women comprise 50% of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but manage plots that are reportedly on average 20–30% less productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate productivity loss, the country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using national data from the Uganda National Panel Survey for 2009–10 and 2010–11 that include a full agricultural module and plot-level gender indicator, the gap before controlling for endowments was estimated to be 17.5%. Panel data methods were combined with an Oaxaca decomposition to investigate the gender differences in resource endowment and return to endowment driving this gap. Although men have greater access to inputs, input use is so low and inverse returns to plot size so strong in Uganda that smaller female-managed plots have a net endowment advantage of 12.9%, revealing a larger unexplained difference in return to endowments of 30.4%. One-half of this is attributed to differential returns to the child dependency ratio, implying that greater child care responsibility is the largest driver of the gap. Smaller drivers include differential uptake of cash crops, differential uptake and return to improved seeds and pesticides, and differential returns to male-owned assets. 2016-11-17T15:17:34Z 2016-11-17T15:17:34Z 2016-11 Journal Article World Development 0305-750X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25367 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Kenya
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spellingShingle	gender agricultural productivity agriculture decomposition gender gaps Ali, Daniel Bowen, Derick Deininger, Klaus Duponchel, Marguerite Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda
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description	Women comprise 50% of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but manage plots that are reportedly on average 20–30% less productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate productivity loss, the country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using national data from the Uganda National Panel Survey for 2009–10 and 2010–11 that include a full agricultural module and plot-level gender indicator, the gap before controlling for endowments was estimated to be 17.5%. Panel data methods were combined with an Oaxaca decomposition to investigate the gender differences in resource endowment and return to endowment driving this gap. Although men have greater access to inputs, input use is so low and inverse returns to plot size so strong in Uganda that smaller female-managed plots have a net endowment advantage of 12.9%, revealing a larger unexplained difference in return to endowments of 30.4%. One-half of this is attributed to differential returns to the child dependency ratio, implying that greater child care responsibility is the largest driver of the gap. Smaller drivers include differential uptake of cash crops, differential uptake and return to improved seeds and pesticides, and differential returns to male-owned assets.
format	Journal Article
author	Ali, Daniel Bowen, Derick Deininger, Klaus Duponchel, Marguerite
author_facet	Ali, Daniel Bowen, Derick Deininger, Klaus Duponchel, Marguerite
author_sort	Ali, Daniel
title	Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda
title_short	Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda
title_full	Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda
title_fullStr	Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda
title_full_unstemmed	Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda
title_sort	investigating the gender gap in agricultural productivity : evidence from uganda
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2016
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25367
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Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity : Evidence from Uganda

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