Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households

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dc.creatorLecoutere, Els
dc.creatorVan Campenhout, Bjorn
dc.date2023-01-02
dc.date2023-01-20T13:00:47Z
dc.date2023-01-20T13:00:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:17:18Z
dc.descriptionIn low- and middle-income countries, poor cooperation between members of smallholder agricultural households may lead to inefficient allocation of productive resources. This study estimates the causal mediating effects of cooperation between spouses on household welfare and public goods provision in Ugandan and Tanzanian monogamous smallholder coffee farming households. The random encouragement to participate in an intensive training program coaching couples in farming as a household enterprise and participatory intrahousehold decision making, which stimulates cooperation and, in turn, household welfare and public goods provision, enables estimating causal mediating effects while avoiding challenges of endogeneity. Spousal cooperation has positive mediating effects on household welfare, measured by total household income per capita and food security, and on household public goods provision, measured by the adoption intensity of agronomic practices and use of improved seed for food crops. Spousal cooperation has larger effects on total household income per capita with longer duration of marriage.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/127688
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/100036
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147321
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133523
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2113065
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceLecoutere E., Campenhout B.V. 2022. Joint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households. Feminist Economics.
dc.subjectcasual mediation analysis
dc.subjectspousal cooperation
dc.subjecthousehold welfare
dc.subjecthousehold public goods provision
dc.subjectagricultural households
dc.subjecteast africa
dc.titleJoint Forces: The Impact of Intrahousehold Cooperation on Welfare in East African Agricultural Households
dc.typeJournal Article

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