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The heat never bothered me anyway: Gender‐specific response of agricultural labor to climatic shocks in Tanzania
Author(s) -
Lee Yeyoung,
Haile Beliyou,
Seymour Greg,
Azzarri Carlo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
applied economic perspectives and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.4
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2040-5804
pISSN - 2040-5790
DOI - 10.1002/aepp.13153
Subject(s) - tanzania , agriculture , psychological intervention , demographic economics , panel data , heat stress , affect (linguistics) , economics , agricultural productivity , adaptation (eye) , labor demand , labour economics , geography , socioeconomics , psychology , wage , biology , communication , zoology , archaeology , neuroscience , psychiatry , econometrics
Agricultural production in Africa is generally highly labor intensive with gender‐specific specialization across activities. Using panel data from Tanzania, we examine the effects of heat stress (temperature above 29°C) during the maize‐growing season on gender‐disaggregated agricultural labor use. Results show that heat stress reduces total male family labor but does not statistically affect female family labor. Households with only female adults seem to increase their labor supply under heat stress. Given these heterogeneous effects, gender‐sensitive development interventions and adaptation strategies are suggested to enhance women's adaptive capacity.