This paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in … productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a … scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …

-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 …

We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill in India to … understand the determinants of changes in plant productivity in 2000-2003. During this period there was a 35 percent increase in …

relationship to both (i) institutional constraints, and (ii) productivity …

Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use micro data on manufacturing … establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … India. When capital and labor are hypothetically reallocated to equalize marginal products to the extent observed in the U …

's aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … estimates of the contribution of labor, capital, education, and total factor productivity for the three sectors of agriculture …

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004, focusing on the post 1973 … acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis focuses on two unusual dimensions of India's experience … growth accounting analysis disaggregates by major sector, and highlights implications for aggregate productivity growth of …

We explore the impact of British colonial institutions on the economic development of India. In some regions, the … directly to cultivators or non-landlords. Although Banerjee and Iyer (2005) find that agricultural productivity of non …