The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the … agricultural productivity? We develop a model of heterogeneous farms making cropping choices and investing in productivity … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

major financial or economic crash. With a shrinking labor force and declining efficiency of investment, raising productivity …

The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent … per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4 ….1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This paper provides a unified framework that explains productivity growth …

We examine aggregate productivity differences across nations using cross-country firm-level data and a quantitative … model of production heterogeneity with distortions featuring operation decisions (selection) and productivity …-level productivity, mostly resulting from the higher prevalence of unproductive firms. Quantitatively, measured cross-country differences …

the labor productivity of workers across the age distribution, while one-third arises from slower labor force growth. Our …

factor productivity, and climate sensitivity. It estimates the pdfs of key output variables, including CO2 concentrations …

increase with workers' productivity, implying a substantial increase in wage inequality. The changes to inequality are …