Gender differences in agricultural productivity: the case of Tanzania

摘要: The article examines gender differences in agricultural productivity using panel data for Tanzania. At the national level, there is weak evidence of mean between male and female plots, but conditional on manager characteristics, plot inputs, crop choice, plots managed solely by a woman are consistently found less productive than all other plots. An Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition reveals that important factors explaining differential area family labor. Women able to obtain higher yields smaller farmed with labor more thus cover gap at aggregate still significant unobservable which contribute widening gap.