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Women’s empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity: Evidence from rural maize farmer households in western Kenya

This paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Applying a cross-sectional instrumental-variable regression...

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Autores principales:	Diiro, Gracious M., Seymour, Greg, Kassie, Menale, Muricho, Geoffrey, Muriithi, Beatrice Wambui
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5978796/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29852008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197995

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