Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India PDF Free

Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India PDF
By:Kajal Gulati,Patrick S. Ward,Travis J. Lybbert,David J. Spielman
Published on 2019-10-30 by Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Evaluations of agricultural technologies rarely consider how adoption may alter the labor allocation of different household members. We examine intrahousehold decision-making dynamics that shape smallholder agricultural households' decision to hire in mechanical rice transplanting (MRT), a technology that reduces demand for labor. To study the adoption decision, we employ an experimental approach to estimating the willingness-to-pay for MRT services, both at the level of individual men and women within the same households, as well as at the overall household level. We find that women value MRT more than men, but this difference in valuation is not driven by differences in their individual characteristics, but primarily by differences in preferences. Although women value MRT more than men, they have less influence over the ultimate technology adoption decision. In households with women working as outside hired laborers, the intrahousehold differences in MRT valuation disappear, suggesting that women value MRT as a means of reallocating on-farm labor to other unpaid family work. Labor-saving mechanization, such as MRT, may have important implications for rural labor markets and on the (gendered) division of labor within agricultural households.

This Book was ranked at 28 by Google Books for keyword agricultural science and technology.

Book ID of Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India's Books is ii27DwAAQBAJ, Book which was written byKajal Gulati,Patrick S. Ward,Travis J. Lybbert,David J. Spielmanhave ETAG "cAs2BHytxuU"

Book which was published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst since 2019-10-30 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is and ISBN 10 Code is

Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true

Book which have "72 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryPolitical Science

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is trueand in ePub is false

Book Preview

Download Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India PDF Free

Download Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India Books Free

Download Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India Free

Download Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India PDF

Download Intrahousehold preference heterogeneity and demand for labor-saving agricultural technology: The case of mechanical rice transplanting in India Books