APL (Ajiken Power Lunch)

Thursday, 20th of June, 12:00 to 1:15 p.m

IDE-JETRO C23 Meeting Room 　

Despite numerous studies, the gender gap in agricultural productivity is still debated. This study utilizes a nationally representative sample of individually managed plots in Burkina Faso to decompose the gap at the mean and selected points of the agricultural productivity distribution. As opposed to the previous literature, we find that female-managed plots are, on average, 83% more productive than male-managed plots. Next, the results suggest that differences in observable characteristics across male- and female-managed plots account for most of the gender productivity gap. Women can obtain higher yields on smaller plots farmed with less male labor and planting crops for which they are more productive. Crop-specific effects explain up to 65.4% of the gender productivity differential. This makes crop choice the first important explaining factor and implies that there may be opportunities to close productivity gaps through more targeted interventions recognizing different crop choices by men and women farmers.

Relwendé Apollinaire Nikiema

Masaru Nagashima