"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 …

because high productivity cities like New York and the San Francisco Bay Area have adopted stringent restrictions to new … housing supply, effectively limiting the number of workers who have access to such high productivity. Using a spatial …

care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …

Productivity reflects not only how efficiently inputs are transformed into outputs, but also how well information is …

annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … operating costs for 1979-1990. We find a significant negative relationship between pollution abatement costs and productivity … deviation increase in abatement costs is predicted to reduce productivity by 5.4 percent. Older plants appear to have lower …

We present a model in which workers' aspirations for wage increases adjust slowly to shifts in productivity growth. The … model yields a Phillips curve with a new variable: the gap between productivity growth and an average of past wage growth …

that the productivity shocks required by the model are implausibly large and volatile. Second, these models have difficulty … requires implausibly high cross-country correlations of productivity shocks. This paper builds a model in which the utilization … in (i) reducing the required size of productivity shocks; and (ii) increasing international comovement of factor inputs …

productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on … productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34 production lines in U.S. steel minimills. Through site visits and … interviews, we collected longitudinal data including precise measures on productivity, work practices, and technology of each of …

factors (especially land), and comparably large productivity divergence. These conditions might seem more favorable to the …

Productivity rises in booms and falls in recessions. There are four main explanations for this procyclical productivity … procyclical productivity as an essential feature of business cycles because each explanation has important implications for … utilization and resource reallocations are particularly important in explaining procyclical productivity. We also argue that the …