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Gender divide in agricultural productivity in Mozambique

João Morgado and Vincenzo Salvucci

No wp-2016-176, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this study we analyze the gender gap in agricultural productivity in Mozambique applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach on data from four agricultural surveys between 2002 and 2012. We find that female-headed households are on average substantially less productive (about 20 per cent) than male-headed households, and that differences are more pronounced in the centre-north compared to the south. The gap persists even though female-headed households are disproportionally found in relatively smaller plots, and a pronounced inverse-size productivity relation exists.

Keywords: Gender gap; Agricultural productivity; Mozambique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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