Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps

Externalities, Endogenous Productivity, and Poverty Traps

We present a version of the neoclassical model with an endogenous industry structure. We obtain multiple steady-state equilibria with an arbitrarily small degree of increasing returns to scale. While the most productive …rms operate across all the steady states, in a poverty trap less productive …rms operate as well. This results in lower average …rm productivity and total factor productivity. ...

Gender and Agriculture in Tanzania

Agriculture is a principal source of livelihood for the Tanzanian population. Agriculture provides more than two-thirds of employment and almost half of Tanzania‘s GDP.1 Women play an essential role in agricultural production. The sector is characterized as female-intensive, meaning that women comprise a majority of the labor force in agriculture (54%).2 Agriculture also comprises a greater par...

The Role of Gender Segregation on Academic Achievement and Social Acceptance in Primary Schools

The interest on studying Single-Sex and Coeducational Elementary Schooling has grown significantly among researchers. Despite this, there has been no research on this topic in Iran till now. The effects of school type on academic achievement and social desirability which are among important variables are examined in this research. The research design is causal-comparative. The population i...

PRODUCTIVITY IN IRISH AgRICULTURE

While detailed analysis of the productivity of many sectors of the Irish economy are not possible because of a lack of data, the quality and volume of data on agricultural outputs and inputs allows such an analysis. In this chapter, a picture of the productivity performance of the Irish agriculture sector based on various different measures is presented and compared with the performance of Irel...

Policies and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture