values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

Introduction / Caroline M. Hoxby and Kevin Stange -- What Healthcare Teaches Us about Measuring Productivity in Higher … Education / Douglas Staiger -- The Productivity of U.S. Postsecondary Institutions / Caroline M. Hoxby -- Labor Market Outcomes …, and Richard Patterson -- Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road to Four-Year College Success …

productivity: evidence and projection /Sun Ling Wang, Eldon Ball, Richard Nehring, Ryan Williams, and Truong Chau --Farming under … diversity on agricultural productivity in South Africa /Cecilia Bellora, Élodie Blanc, Jean-Marc Bourgeon, and Eric Strobl … --Crop disease and agricultural productivity: evidence from a dynamic structural model of verticillium wilt management …

firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority …, doubling from an elasticity of 0.07 for pay on productivity for the median-paid employee to 0.15 for the top-paid employee … rising productivity can explain 40% of the rise in within-firm inequality since 1980 …

taxation be structured to improve productivity, incentivize innovation, and ultimately increase welfare? We study these … their productivity and are subject to collateral constraints. The stationary equilibrium features heterogeneous returns and … misallocation of capital. We show that increasing the wealth tax increases aggregate productivity. The gains result from the "use …

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the … agricultural productivity? We develop a model of heterogeneous farms making cropping choices and investing in productivity … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

affecting productivity. By contrast, sentiment shocks in non-G7 countries predict prolonged economic growth and a corresponding … increase in productivity. The results suggest that sentiment can indeed create economic booms, but only in less advanced …

major financial or economic crash. With a shrinking labor force and declining efficiency of investment, raising productivity …