Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda

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dc.creatorVan Campenhout, Bjorn
dc.date2016-11-28
dc.date2024-06-21T09:23:06Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:23:06Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:25:40Z
dc.descriptionHuman fertility can affect agricultural production through its effect on supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies, sons are generally preferred to daughters, we isolate exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and relate it to the agricultural labor supply and production in Uganda, which has a dominant agricultural sector and high fertility. We find that fertility has a sizable negative effect on household labor allocation to subsistence agriculture. Households with lower fertility devote significantly more time to land preparation and weeding; larger households grow less matooke and sweet potatoes. We find no significant effect on agricultural productivity in terms of yield per land area.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147622
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/104062
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149375
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceVan Campenhout, Bjorn. 2016. Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 45(3): 581 - 607. https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2016.26
dc.subjectfertility
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectlabor supply
dc.subjectlabour
dc.subjectproductivity
dc.titleFertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda
dc.typeJournal Article

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