@article{McCarthy:51040,
      recid = {51040},
      author = {McCarthy, Nancy and Sun, Yan},
      title = {Participation by Men and Women in Off-Farm Activities: an  Empirical Analysis in Rural Northern Ghana},
      address = {2009},
      number = {1005-2016-79086},
      series = {Contributed paper},
      pages = {36},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {The paper evaluates the household- and community-level  factors influencing women’s and men’s decisions to  participate in off-farm activities, either in the off-farm  labor market or in local community groups, and the  relationship with on-farm crop returns. Results reveals  female participation in off-farm labor markets increases at  higher levels of labor availability, and female on-farm  work and group participation are complementary activities.   Results also indicate that male labor is relatively more  productive on-farm versus off-farm than female labor.  Finally, the study shows that education increases the  likelihood for both women and men to work off-farm,  although the impact is greater for women.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/51040},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.51040},
}