"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 … alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …