Women's empowerment in agriculture: Implications for technical efficiency in rural Bangladesh

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dc.creatorSeymour, Gregory
dc.date2017
dc.date2024-06-21T09:25:19Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:25:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:03:52Z
dc.descriptionAlthough a great deal of research exists on gender and agriculture, few studies investigate the implications of reduced gender disparities in households for technical efficiency. In this article, I compare the levels of technical efficiency achieved on plots operated by households with different levels of gender disparities. Using plot‐level data from the 2011–2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey and drawing on indicators derived from the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, I estimate a stochastic frontier production function model, which includes women's empowerment in agriculture as an exogenous determinant of technical inefficiency. I find that reduced gender disparities within households (measured in terms of the empowerment gap between spouses) are associated with higher levels of technical efficiency. This result extends to plots that women jointly manage with their spouses, as well as those that women do not actively manage.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148648
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93477
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147776
dc.sourceSeymour, Gregory. 2017. Women's empowerment in agriculture: Implications for technical efficiency in rural Bangladesh. Agricultural Economics 48(4): 513–522. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12352
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectwomen's empowerment
dc.subjectdevelopment indicators
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectsocioeconomic development
dc.subjectgender equity
dc.subjectgender analysis
dc.titleWomen's empowerment in agriculture: Implications for technical efficiency in rural Bangladesh
dc.typeJournal Article

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