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- Title
Labor differentiation and cotton productivity in Burkina Faso.
- Authors
Zong‐naba, Aminata; N'gbo, Aké G.‐M.; Combary, Omer S.
- Abstract
Agriculture is a very important sector in Africa's economic development, particularly in Burkina Faso, as it employs a large proportion of the population. Given the importance of labor in this sector, a good allocation of the different types of labor could help increase agricultural productivity in Burkina Faso. This research contributes to the literature by determining the specific contributions of each type of labor in enhancing cotton productivity. The sample of this research is 477 cotton farms, and a semiparametric stochastic frontier model has been used in the analysis. The results show that the proportion of wage labor has a nonlinear effect and contributes to improving cotton productivity when the number of educated people in the household increases. But family labor decreases cotton productivity when the number of educated people in the household increase. The comparison between the findings of the semiparametric and parametric frontier shows that technical efficiency is 72.44% when education is used as the channel through which production factors affect cotton productivity. However, this technical efficiency is 54.96% when production factors directly affect cotton productivity in the parametric frontier model. Promoting education in rural areas will help to increase the number of people educated and consequently improve cotton productivity.
- Subjects
BURKINA Faso; LABOR productivity; COTTON growing; COTTON; FACTORS of production; AGRICULTURAL productivity; PARAMETRIC modeling; HOUSEKEEPING
- Publication
African Development Review / Revue Africaine de Développement, 2024, Vol 36, Issue 2, p306
- ISSN
1017-6772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8268.12751