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Caught in a productivity trap: a distributional perspective on gender differences in Malawian agriculture.
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In this article, the authors provided a nationally-representative analysis of the gender gap in Malawi, and decomposes it, for the first time, at the mean and at selected points of the agricultural productivity distribution into (i) a portion driven by gender differences in levels of observable attributes (the endowment effect), and (ii) a part driven by women differences in returns to the same set of observables (the structure effect).About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 200 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gender analysis & Productivity.read more
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Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: What Role for Food Security in Bangladesh?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between women empowerment in agriculture, measured using the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and per capita calorie availability, dietary diversity, and adult body mass index (BMI).
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Women’s Empowerment Mitigates the Negative Effects of Low Production Diversity on Maternal and Child Nutrition in Nepal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used household survey data from Nepal to investigate relationships between women empowerment in agriculture and production diversity on maternal and child dietary diversity and anthropometric and anthropological data.
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How much of the labor in African agriculture is provided by women
TL;DR: There are no systematic differences across crops and activities, but female labor shares tend to be higher in households where women own a larger share of the land and when they are more educated.
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Decomposition of gender differentials in agricultural productivity in Ethiopia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed decomposition methods to analyze differences in agricultural productivity between male and female land managers in Ethiopia and found that gender differentials are more pronounced at mid-levels of productivity and the share of the gender gap explained by the endowment effect declines as productivity increases.
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Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence
TL;DR: A review of the literature on women's land rights and poverty reduction can be found in this article, where the authors identify pathways by which WLR could reduce poverty and increase wellbeing of women and their households in rural areas.
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Male-Female Wage Differentials in Urban Labor Markets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the average extent of discrimination against female workers in the United States and provide a quantitative assessment of the sources of male-female wage differentials in the same occupation.
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
TL;DR: Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson as discussed by the authors used estimates of potential European settler mortality as an instrument for institutional variation in former European colonies today, and they followed the lead of Curtin who compiled data on the death rates faced by European soldiers in various overseas postings.
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Wage Discrimination: Reduced Form and Structural Estimates
TL;DR: In this paper, a distinction is drawn between reduced form and structural wage equations, and both are estimated They are shown to have very different implications for analyzing the white-black and male-female wage differentials.
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The State of Food and Agriculture
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Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools
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