Labor & Gender
Time Use, Childcare, and Adoption of Labor-saving Technologies on Smallholder Farms
Joint modeling of time poverty and technology adoption highlights binding constraints for women in peak agricultural seasons.
Overview
Joint modeling of time poverty and technology adoption highlights binding constraints for women in peak agricultural seasons.
Peak-season time diaries show childcare overlaps with fertilizer top-dressing windows, depressing timely adoption of recommended packages.
Advanced Economic Research
Key insight · World Development (2024)
Key findings
- Light mechanization trials free hours that reallocates to livestock care rather than leisure - implications for how WTP is measured.
Gendered agronomy
Gendered agronomy
Extension calendars designed for male plot managers mis-time recommendations for households where women execute key tasks under competing care burdens.
Joint modeling
Joint modeling
We estimate simultaneous equations for time poverty indices and technology stacks, using rainfall timing as an instrument for labor peaks.
Light mechanization trials free hours that reallocates to livestock care rather than leisure - implications for how WTP is measured.
Advanced Economic Research
Labor & Gender · 2024
