Women's empowerment in agriculture and productivity change: The case of Bangladesh rice farms.

Using productivity change as a measure of farm economic performance, we analyze the relationship between women's empowerment in agriculture and farm productivity change and its components, which include efficiency change, technological change, and scale efficiency change. A non-parametric Malmq...

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Autores principales:	Mohammad Hasan Mobarok, Theodoros Skevas, Wyatt Thompson
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:11bea1fc04e544569b41e21635e0060c2021-12-02T20:18:44ZWomen's empowerment in agriculture and productivity change: The case of Bangladesh rice farms.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0255589https://doaj.org/article/11bea1fc04e544569b41e21635e0060c2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255589https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Using productivity change as a measure of farm economic performance, we analyze the relationship between women's empowerment in agriculture and farm productivity change and its components, which include efficiency change, technological change, and scale efficiency change. A non-parametric Malmquist approach is used to measure farm specific productivity change and its decomposition. We use a bootstrap regression to analyze factors that cause differences in productivity change and its components, testing, in particular, the role women's empowerment plays. The empirical application focuses on a sample of Bangladesh rice farms over the crop cultivation period 2011 and 2014. Results suggest that improvements in women's empowerment in agriculture were associated with higher levels of productivity change, efficiency change, and technical change, while they had no impact on scale efficiency change. We find that empowering women, specifically, improving their ability to make independent choices regarding agricultural production had a statistically significant positive association with productivity change, efficiency change, and technical change. We also find that lowering the gender parity gap is positively related with improving productivity of the sample farms.Mohammad Hasan MobarokTheodoros SkevasWyatt ThompsonPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 8, p e0255589 (2021)
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description	Using productivity change as a measure of farm economic performance, we analyze the relationship between women's empowerment in agriculture and farm productivity change and its components, which include efficiency change, technological change, and scale efficiency change. A non-parametric Malmquist approach is used to measure farm specific productivity change and its decomposition. We use a bootstrap regression to analyze factors that cause differences in productivity change and its components, testing, in particular, the role women's empowerment plays. The empirical application focuses on a sample of Bangladesh rice farms over the crop cultivation period 2011 and 2014. Results suggest that improvements in women's empowerment in agriculture were associated with higher levels of productivity change, efficiency change, and technical change, while they had no impact on scale efficiency change. We find that empowering women, specifically, improving their ability to make independent choices regarding agricultural production had a statistically significant positive association with productivity change, efficiency change, and technical change. We also find that lowering the gender parity gap is positively related with improving productivity of the sample farms.
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title	Women's empowerment in agriculture and productivity change: The case of Bangladesh rice farms.
title_short	Women's empowerment in agriculture and productivity change: The case of Bangladesh rice farms.
title_full	Women's empowerment in agriculture and productivity change: The case of Bangladesh rice farms.
title_fullStr	Women's empowerment in agriculture and productivity change: The case of Bangladesh rice farms.
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Women's empowerment in agriculture and productivity change: The case of Bangladesh rice farms.

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