Gender, agricultural production, and the theory of the household.
Virtually all models of the household assume that the allocation of resources is Pareto efficient. Within many African households, agricultural production occurs on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Pareto efficiency implies that factors should be allocated efficiently a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Political Economy Vol. 104; pp. 1010 - 1047 |
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University of Chicago Press
October 1996
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