The debate about the inverse relationship between farm size and productivity has rarely focused on the issue of family labour. We argue that theory about the relative efficiency of such labour is based on simplistic assumptions about its supervisional advantages given a coalescence of intra-household incentives. These assumptions do not take account of the literature on household decision making, which suggests that the incentives of family labour may be far more complex. Nor does it consider the literature on farmworker productivity, which suggests a wider set of factors might lead to efficiency differences between family labour and hired labour. We end by considering the implications of these issues for the literature on farm productivity and on land redistribution. Le d�bat sur la relation inverse entre la taille et le rendement d'une exploitation agricole s'est rarement int�ress� � la main d'oeuvre familiale. Nous soutenons que la th�orie sur l'efficacit� relative de cette main d'oeuvre est fond�e sur des hypoth�ses simplistes quant aux avantages en mati�re de supervision � utiliser la main-d'oeuvre familiale eu �gard � une combinaison d'incitations intrafamiliales. Ces hypoth�ses ne prennent pas en compte la litt�rature sur la prise de d�cision au sein des m�nages qui sugg�re qu'un �ventail plus complexe de facteurs d�termine les incitations de la main-d'oeuvre familiale. Le d�bat ne s'int�resse pas non plus � la litt�rature sur la productivit� des exploitations agricoles qui sugg�re que les �carts de rendement entre main-d'oeuvre familiale et main-d'oeuvre salari�e sont la cons�quence d'un �ventail de facteurs nettement plus large. Nous terminons en consid�rant les implications de ces discussions pour la litt�rature sur la productivit� des exploitations agricoles et sur la redistribution des terres.
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