IMPACT OF CREDIT ON LABOR ALLOCATION AND CONSUMPTION PATTERNS IN MALAWI

Hema Swaminathan () and Jill L. Findeis

No 22118, 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Using a bargaining framework, this paper analyzes the impact of access to credit on household labor allocation and on consumption expenditures in rural Malawi. The labor participation decisions of married men and women and female heads are estimated using random-effects probit models, and are corrected for endogeneity of access to credit. Expenditure shares are estimated using ordinary least squares and Tobit models.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.22118

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