@article{Ouedraogo:236123,
      recid = {236123},
      author = {Ouedraogo, Aissatou and Dillon, Andrew and Porter, Maria},
      title = {How Do Nuclear and Extended-Family Households Differ in  Labor Allocation Decisions due to Agricultural Technology  Adoption?  Evidence from Burkina Faso},
      address = {2016-05-26T03:22:05Z},
      number = {333-2016-14535},
      series = {Using Experimental Economics to Investigate  Intra-household Allocation},
      pages = {27},
      month = {May},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {Abstract: Households adopting new agricultural  technologies often face labor constraints influencing the  extent to which such technologies are productive and  profitable. Such labor constraints differ for nuclear and  extended-family households. In a randomized control trial,  we estimate the heterogeneous treatment effect of an  efficacious fertilization technique called microdosing by  differences in household structure.  The encouragement  design which allocated starter packs and microdosing  training to assigned households induced extended family  households to reduce labor to agricultural activities,  while nuclear households increased such labor activities.  These differentiated effects are dominated by households  who had previously used fertilizer. Thus, microdosing does  not completely relieve the binding labor constraint for  extended households who previously used broadcast  fertilizer methods.  Although nontrivial labor allocation  is necessary for both broadcast and microdosing, for  extended households, microdosing lowers total person-days  to agricultural production by 18% relative to mean labor  allocation at baseline, whereas nuclear households increase  labor allocation to agricultural production by 36%.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/236123},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.236123},
}