Gender differences in agricultural productivity: the case of Tanzania
Gender differences in agricultural productivity: the case of Tanzania
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农业生产力的性别差异：坦桑尼亚的案例
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2015
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V. Slavchevska
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本文使用坦桑尼亚的面板数据检验了农业生产率的性别差异。在国家一级，有微弱证据表明男性和女性地块的平均生产率差异，但根据管理者特征、地块特征、投入和作物选择，只由女性管理的地块始终被发现低于所有其他地块。Oaxaca-Blinder类型的分解表明，解释性别差异的重要因素是地块面积和家庭劳动。女性能够在男性劳动力较少、女性劳动力较多的较小地块上获得更高的产量，从而在总体水平上弥补生产率的性别差距，但仍有重大的不可观察到的因素导致差距扩大。
The article examines gender differences in agricultural productivity using panel data for Tanzania. At the national level, there is weak evidence of mean differences in productivity between male and female plots, but conditional on manager characteristics, plot characteristics, inputs, and crop choice, plots managed solely by a woman are consistently found less productive than all other plots. An Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition reveals that important factors explaining the gender differential are plot area and family labor. Women are able to obtain higher yields on smaller plots farmed with less male labor and more female labor and thus cover the gender gap in productivity at the aggregate level, but there are still significant unobservable factors which contribute to widening the gap.