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A Test Of The Household Separation Hypothesis In Rwanda, James E. Anderson
A Test Of The Household Separation Hypothesis In Rwanda, James E. Anderson
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How does a farm household in rural Africa react when the government decides crop selection? In developing countries, agricultural households strive to optimize a risk mitigating utility function rather than a traditional agricultural production function. These households are termed “non-separated” as their farming efforts are directed towards family food security rather than maximizing agricultural profits. The lack of integration with labor and commodity markets makes these non-separated households difficult to influence with policy initiatives. Various tests for household separation have been developed.
We use a unique dataset from Rwanda to evaluate these separation tests. The data include households forced into …