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Market Imperfections Exacerbate the Gender Gap : The Case of Malawi / Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Palacios-Lopez, Amparo
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communities & Human Settlements.
- Gender.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Local Subjects:
- Communities & Human Settlements.
- Gender.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Social Protections and Labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 pages)
- Other Title:
- Market Imperfections Exacerbate the Gender Gap
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2015
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This paper hypothesizes that labor and credit market imperfections-by discouraging off-farm income-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively-affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The paper develops a theoretical model that decomposes the contribution of various market imperfections to the gender productivity gap. The paper shows empirically that agricultural labor productivity is on average 44 percent lower on plots managed by female heads of household than on those managed by male heads. Thirty-four percent of this gap is explained by differences in labor market access and 29 percent by differences in credit access.
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