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Measuring Farm Labor: Survey Experimental Evidence from Ghana

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dc.contributor.authorGaddis, Isis
dc.contributor.authorPalacios-Lopez, Amparo
dc.contributor.authorPieters, Janneke
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dc.date.issued2020-05-21
dc.description.abstractThis study examines recall bias in farm labor through a randomized survey experiment in Ghana, comparing farm labor estimates from an end-of-season recall survey with data collected weekly throughout the agricultural season. Recall households report 10 percent more farm labor per person-plot, which can be explained by recall households’ under reporting of “marginal” plots and household workers. This “selective” omission by recall households, denoted as listing bias, alters the composition of plots and workers across treatment arms and inflates average farm labor hours per person-plot in the recall group. Since listing bias, in this setting, dominates other forms of recall bias at higher levels of aggregation (i.e., when farm labor per person-plot is summed at the plot, person, or household level), farm labor productivity is overestimated for recall households. Consistent with the notion that recall bias is linked to the cognitive burden of reporting on past events, there is no recall bias among more educated households.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40857
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40857
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectRECALL BIAS
dc.subjectMEASUREMENT ERROR
dc.subjectFARM LABOR PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectGENDER IN AGRICULTURE
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL DATA ESTIMATE ERROR
dc.titleMeasuring Farm Laboren
dc.title.subtitleSurvey Experimental Evidence from Ghanaen
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://academic.oup.com/wber/article/35/3/604/5841757
okr.crossref.titleMeasuring Farm Labor: Survey Experimental Evidence from Ghana
okr.date.disclosure2020-05-21
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhaa012
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40857
okr.journal.nbpages604–634
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryGhana
okr.topicAgriculture::Agricultural Research
okr.topicAgriculture::Agricultural Sector Economics
okr.topicRural Development::Rural Labor Markets
okr.volume35 (3)
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