Women's Access to Credit: Does It Matter for Household Efficiency? Export

@article{citeulike:2640888, abstract = {Studies that assess the impact of credit constraints on farm households' efficiency have largely used the household as the unit of analysis. This can be problematic when there are gender-based market imperfections and asymmetries in how rights, resources, and responsibilities are distributed within the household. Constraints on women matter: in addition to the efficiency loss associated with the husbands' credit constraints, when women are unable to meet their needs for capital, their households experienced an additional 11\% drop in efficiency. This suggests that there are efficiency-based arguments for enhancing women's access to capital and that studies based only on the household's head may significantly underestimate the true economic impact of credit constraints.}, author = {Fletschner, Diana}, citeulike-article-id = {2640888}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01143.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01143.x}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01143.x}, journal = {American Journal of Agricultural Economics}, keywords = {credit, gender, microdata}, number = {0}, pages = {???}, posted-at = {2008-04-08 09:32:41}, priority = {2}, title = {Women's Access to Credit: Does It Matter for Household Efficiency?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01143.x}, volume = {0}, year = {0} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2640888 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2640888 N2 - Studies that assess the impact of credit constraints on farm households' efficiency have largely used the household as the unit of analysis. This can be problematic when there are gender-based market imperfections and asymmetries in how rights, resources, and responsibilities are distributed within the household. Constraints on women matter: in addition to the efficiency loss associated with the husbands' credit constraints, when women are unable to meet their needs for capital, their households experienced an additional 11% drop in efficiency. This suggests that there are efficiency-based arguments for enhancing women's access to capital and that studies based only on the household's head may significantly underestimate the true economic impact of credit constraints. IS - 0 JF - American Journal of Agricultural Economics EP - ??? TI - Women's Access to Credit: Does It Matter for Household Efficiency? VL - 0 SP - ??? KW - credit KW - gender KW - microdata AU - Fletschner, Diana PY - 2000/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8276.2008.01143.x ER -