Gender differentials in agricultural productivity: evidence from Nepalese household data
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Keywords
gender differentials; agriculture; production functions; marginal products; Nepal;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2009-03-07 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2009-03-07 (Development)
- NEP-EFF-2009-03-07 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-LAB-2009-03-07 (Labour Economics)
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