TY - BOOK ID - 136289000 TI - Agricultural Factor Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : An Updated View with Formal Tests for Market Failure AU - Dillon, Brian AU - Barrett, Christopher B. PY - 2014 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural Employment KW - Agricultural Policies KW - Agricultural Productivity And Markets KW - Farm Inputs KW - Public Sector Management KW - Rural Development UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136289000 AB - This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative data sets from five countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to provide a comprehensive overview of land and labor market participation by agrarian households and to formally test for failures in factor markets. Under complete and competitive markets, households can solve their consumption and production problems separately, so that household factor endowments do not predict input demand. This paper implements a simple, theoretically grounded test of this separation hypothesis, which can be interpreted as a reduced form test of factor market failure. In all five study countries, the analysis finds strong evidence of factor market failure. Moreover, those failures appear general and structural, not specific to subpopulations defined by gender or geography. ER -