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Rural credit and the time allocation of agricultural households: The case of PRONAF in Brazil

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  • Regis A. Ely
  • Rafael Parfitt
  • André Carraro
  • Felipe Garcia Ribeiro

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This paper evaluates the impact of Brazil's National Program to Strengthen Family Farming (PRONAF) on the time allocation of household members. We use data from the 2014 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios, and we apply propensity score methods to complex surveys recently recommended in the literature. We find that PRONAF helps to increase focus on agricultural activities, but it also stimulates female partners to engage in unpaid work. The results show significant effects of PRONAF on child labor and on the gender‐specific division of labor within households, although it does not have the usual adverse effects of rural credit programs on school attendance.

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  • Regis A. Ely & Rafael Parfitt & André Carraro & Felipe Garcia Ribeiro, 2019. "Rural credit and the time allocation of agricultural households: The case of PRONAF in Brazil," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(4), pages 1863-1890, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:rdevec:v:23:y:2019:i:4:p:1863-1890
    DOI: 10.1111/rode.12606
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    1. De Carvalho Reis Neves, Mateus & Freitas, Carlos Otavio & De Figueiredo Silva, Felipe & Braga, Marcelo J. & Costa, Davi M., 2021. "The effect of marketing through cooperatives on income distribution in Brazil," 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas 314007, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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