Investigating Disparities in Access and Returns to Endowments between Male and Female Headed Households in Cameroon

This paper applies the Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) approach to investigate disparities in endowments and returns to these endowments between male and female headed households, and to construct a discrimination index. This approach permits us to obtain appropriate parameter estimates of income generating functions, and to use them to derive the partial effects of regressed factor endowments as well as their returns on gender disparities in Cameroon.