摘要：Within many African households, agricultural production is simultaneously carriedout on many plots controlled by different members of the household. Detailed plot-levelagronomic data from Burkina Faso provides striking evidence of inefficiencies in theallocation of factors of production across the plots controlled by different members of thehousehold. Production function estimates imply that the value of household output couldbe increased by 10 to 20 percent by reallocating currently-used factors of productionacross plots. This finding contradicts standard models of agricultural households. Aricher model of behavior, which recognizes that the individuals who comprise ahousehold compete as well as cooperate, has important implications for the structure ofagricultural production and for the design of agricultural policy.
