Payoffs to Increasing the Human Capital of Women Farmers

International Labour Organization
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South-East Asia and the Pacific Multidisciplinary Advisory Team
ILO/SEAPAT's OnLine Gender Learning & Information Module

There Are Obvious Payoffs to Increasing

the Human Capital of Women Farmers

Policy Experiment	Increase in yields (percent)
Maize farmers, Kenya, 1976 ^a Effect of giving female farmers age, education, and input levels of the average of all the individuals in the sample Effect of giving female farmers men’s age, education, and input levels Effect of giving women primary schooling	7 9 24
Foodcrop farmers, Kenya, 1990 ^b Effect of giving female farmers men’s age, education and input levels Effect of increasing land area to male farmers’ levels Effect of increasing fertilizer to male farmers’ levels	22 10.5 1.6

a. Coefficients from Moock 1976

b. Coefficients from Saito, Mekonnen, and Spurling 1992; maize, beans, and cowpea production

SOURCE: Enhancing Women's Participation in Economic Development, World Bank, 1994

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This page was revised by SF. It was approved by WRB. It was last updated on 2 November 1998.