"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 …

. Although we find that direct reforms improve medical productivity primarily by reducing malpractice claims rates and …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical … rentals have substantial positive effects on agricultural productivity: an efficient reallocation of land increases … agricultural productivity by 38 percent on average and by more than 50 percent in states with highly distorted rental markets. Both …

are frequent, often large, weakly correlated across teams, and which substantially reduce team productivity. Together …

Measured productivity is strongly procyclical. Real business cycle theories suggest that actual fluctuations in … productivity are the source of fluctuations in aggregate output. Keynesian theories maintain that fluctuations in aggregate output … to explain the procyclicality of productivity. If observed productivity shocks are true productivity shocks, a function …

productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …

is an important determinant of earnings and thus of labor productivity, holding constant employee at-tributes such as age … for estimation of the marginal productivity of workers classified by length of service to the firm, i.e., of the tenure-productivity … changes in labor turnover behavior) on manufacturing productivity performance …

reflect misallocation which hinders aggregate productivity. But differences in measured average products need not reflect …

Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these …, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall productivity, but are not …