The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially … proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data … (NGHS). We find evidence of significant spatial autocorrelation. Productivity of non-farm enterprises is widely dispersed …

immigrants is found to be associated with an improvement in farm performance as measured by job creation and revenue, and this …

literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of optimal labor allocation, but is instead driven by households …. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing … credit during the growing season substantially alters the allocation of household labor, with households in villages randomly …

cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the effects of distortions that are correlated … with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … quite well for properties of Japanese size-distribution data, with a model-implied TFP of about 83% of the U.S. Distortions …

-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross … distortions. We develop a model in which heterogeneous firms face adjustment frictions (overhead labor and quasi-fixed capital …) and idiosyncratic distortions. We show that the model can be readily calibrated to match the observed cross …