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The Role of Empowerment in Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rural Households in Niger

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  • Fleur Wouterse

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We use new household and individual level WEAI data from the Tahoua region of Niger and estimate a variable coefficient Cobb-Douglas production function in which traditional inputs interact with two human capital variables – empowerment and formal education. Our estimation results reveal that human capital matters for productivity. So much so that it can be considered as technology-changing, significantly affecting a household’s production technology by enhancing returns to equipment. In fact, differentiating households by their status as dual or primary with only an adult female or male reveals that the productivity elasticity of empowerment is large for dual households in which women are the least empowered. Enhancing the empowerment of women in this group of households, by increasing their leadership skills or tenure security, would yield important productivity gains.

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  • Fleur Wouterse, 2019. "The Role of Empowerment in Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rural Households in Niger," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(4), pages 565-580, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:55:y:2019:i:4:p:565-580
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2017.1408797
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    1. Neog, Bhaskar Jyoti & Sahoo, Bimal Kishore, 2020. "Rural non-farm diversification, agricultural feminisation and women’s autonomy in the farm: evidence from India," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 64(3), July.
    2. Quisumbing, Agnes R. & Sproule, Kathryn & Martinez, Elena M. & Malapit, Hazel, 2021. "Do tradeoffs among dimensions of women’s empowerment and nutrition outcomes exist? Evidence from six countries in Africa and Asia," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    3. Lota Tamini & Ibrahima Bocoum & Ghislain Auger & Kotchikpa Gabriel Lawin & Arahama Traoré, 2019. "Enhanced Microfinance Services and Agricultural Best Management Practices: What Benefits for Smallholders Farmers? An Evidence from Burkina Faso," CIRANO Working Papers 2019s-11, CIRANO.
    4. Hiroyuki Takeshima, 2024. "Public Expenditure’s Role in Reducing Poverty and Improving Food and Nutrition Security: Cross-Country Evidence from SPEED Data," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 36(5), pages 1045-1073, October.
    5. Bhaskar Jyoti Neog & Bimal Kishore Sahoo, 2020. "Rural non‐farm diversification, agricultural feminisation and women's autonomy in the farm: evidence from India," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 64(3), pages 940-959, July.

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