We revisit the long-standing empirical evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity using … in the literature, but positively related to farm productivity (a farm-specific component of total factor productivity … evaluating the role of farm-specific distortions. Our findings point to the limited value of yields (or land productivity) in …

Crop diseases and how they are managed can have a large impact on agricultural productivity. This paper discusses the … effects on agricultural productivity of Verticillium dahliae, a soil borne fungus that is introduced to the soil via infested … important implications for agricultural productivity …

crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a … probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe crop survival and productivity according to diversity. From this …

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among … smallholder farmers. Applying standard regression-based approaches to measuring productivity residuals, we find much larger …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of … the variation in outcomes - sales, profits and labor productivity and TFP - in microenterprises as in larger enterprises …

the productivity distribution, and these improvements significantly outweigh the losses to the firm from the distortionary … improvements at the bottom of the productivity distribution. Our results suggest that contract design can help foster learning on …