Performance of women-managed plots compared to men-managed plots among smallholder maize farmers in western and central Ethiopia

A more targeted approach towards improving women's access to agricultural innovations is key to increase the overall agricultural productivity. This paper uses gender-disaggregated household and plot-level survey data from Ethiopia to explore the impacts of multiple agronomic practices disaggre...

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Published inJournal of Applied Economics Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 523 - 540
Main Authors Phiri Marenya, Paswel, Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos, Rahut, Dil Bahadur
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Taylor & Francis 2021
Routledge
Informa UK Limited
Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Economic growth, development, planning
Economic history and conditions
endogenous switching regression
Ethiopia
gender
gender, heterogeneity
HC10-1085
HD72-88
heterogeneity
Technology adoption
welfare
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Summary:A more targeted approach towards improving women's access to agricultural innovations is key to increase the overall agricultural productivity. This paper uses gender-disaggregated household and plot-level survey data from Ethiopia to explore the impacts of multiple agronomic practices disaggregated by the sex of the plot manager. Using a multinomial endogenous switching regression methodology, after controlling for endogeneity arising from observed and unobserved heterogeneity, we found that multiple agronomic practices have a positive and significant effect on maize yields and maize income. Crucially, subject to demographics, plot quality and agronomic practices (among others), we found that women-managed plots (WMP) had treatment effects (yields) that were statistically the same as those of men-managed plots (MMP) (and nominally higher in a number of cases).
ISSN:1667-6726
1514-0326
1667-6726
DOI:10.1080/15140326.2021.1969856