Fairness and Efficiency in Smallholder Farming: The Relation with Intrahousehold Decision-Making

Els Lecoutere and Laurence Jassogne

Journal of Development Studies, 2019, vol. 55, issue 1, 57-82

Abstract: Agricultural households face collective action dilemmas when making decisions about investments in their common household farm and the allocation of resources and benefits derived from it. We relate intrahousehold decisions, as measured in a lab-in-the-field experiment conducted with spouses in agricultural households in western Uganda, with actual investments and intrahousehold resource allocation. Intrahousehold decision-making that supports cooperation and equitable sharing is associated with greater investment in the intensification of cash and food crop production, and more equitable access and control over income. Freeriding behaviour by husbands is associated with the intensification of cash crop production, but not with equitable sharing.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1400014

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