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Communication and production in the family farm: Theory and evidence from rural Togo

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  • Marie Christine Apedo-Amah

    (BM = WB - La Banque Mondiale = The World Bank - WBG = GBM - World Bank Group = Groupe Banque Mondiale)

  • Habiba Djebbari

    (AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, AMU - Aix Marseille Université)

  • Roberta Ziparo

    (AMSE - Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, AMU - Aix Marseille Université)

Abstract

We test for cheap talk between husbands and wives in farm households. In a labin-the-field experiment, husbands allocate inputs between their own plot and their wife's higher-return plot. We vary how returns on the wife's plot are communicated. Across all treatments, husbands underinvest in their wife's land. We model this with limited enforcement of marital agreements and derive additional predictions. Allocative inefficiencies are greater when women hold private information, especially in households with low resource sharing under full information. Communication only partly offsets inefficiencies, and only when information is verifiable ex post.

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  • Marie Christine Apedo-Amah & Habiba Djebbari & Roberta Ziparo, 2026. "Communication and production in the family farm: Theory and evidence from rural Togo," Post-Print hal-05545153, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05545153
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://amu.hal.science/hal-05545153v1
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    JEL classification:

    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments

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