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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …
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African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a subsequent neglect of mechanization, both in practice and in academia. In...
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This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural …-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural … the gender division of labor in the agricultural sector. We also quantify significant inter-generational effects of this …
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This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural …-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural … the gender division of labor in the agricultural sector. We also quantify significant inter-generational effects of this …
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agriculture, opens the field to more studies on technology adoption and time-use and suggests that gender roles are changing with … mechanization with regard to time-use during land preparation, which leads to gender differentiation; for households using manual … negative effects on children were found. The study debunks some myths related to gender roles in African smallholder …
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municipalities in Brazil, I show that these technologies reduced female earnings and employment in agriculture, without reallocation …
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estimate the effect of India’s Green Revolution on the gender wage gap in village labor markets. Widely considered the country … and losers, and offers an example of productivity growth that exacerbated gender disparities …
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Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …
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Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … gender-differentiated labor impacts of droughts resulting from lower precipitation using unique individual-level panel data … explained by social costs emanating from gender norms that constrain women's access to non-farm work opportunities. The results …
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