Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1402:
More Coffee, More Cigarettes? Coffee Market Liberalisation, Gender, and Bargaining in Uganda
Jennifer Golan and Jann Lay
Abstract: Focusing on intra-household allocation, we investigate the
effects of coffee market liberalisation in Uganda. As coffee has
traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might
increase gender disparities. In addition, gender-related inefficiency in
household production might undermine the positive impact of improved
incentives. Using data from three household surveys conducted between 1992
and 2006, we estimate Engel curves, coffee yield and labour input equations
incorporating bargaining proxies. We find that income from coffee is
increasingly pooled and therefore shared more equally among household
members. Yet, we can only detect partial improvements in production
efficiency: bargaining still appears to constraint output efficiency and
the distribution of household resources continues to follow gendered lines.
Moreover, female-headed households are deterred from entry into coffee
farming mainly because of discrimination in access to land.
Keywords: Coffee, Market liberalisation, Gender, Bargaining, Intra-household allocation, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: D13,; D61,; J16,; O12,; O13,; O24; (follow links to similar papers)
34 pages, February 2008
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