North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce … agricultural productivity by 46%, accounting for around 70% of the observed 2.5-fold difference between regions. Moreover, two …-enhancing investment, which more than doubles the productivity loss from factor misallocation …

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 …

Economy-wide institutional deficiencies causing factor misallocation have been emphasized as essential determinants of … than misallocation resulting from capital and output distortions, with larger TFP gains from removing technique distortions …

role that the misallocation of resources plays in helping us understand income differences across countries. Misallocation … at the micro level typically reduces total factor productivity at the macro level. Quantifying these effects is leading …

geographic regions, we find that low agricultural productivity in poor countries is not due to poor land endowments. If countries …Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or … constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity …

for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated …

-driven productivity changes on water quality in the Gulf of Mexico using an integrated hydro-economic agricultural land use (IHEAL) model …

and South Korea), predict large aggregate TFP losses from misallocation of factors across productive units? Our answer is …

as follows. Misallocation appears to be a substantial channel in accounting for productivity differences across countries … static cost of misallocation, we believe that the dynamic effects of misallocation on productivity growth are significant and … in productivity are a dominant source of these differences. But what accounts for productivity differences across …

-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical … evidence that states with more rental-market activity feature less misallocation and reallocate land more efficiently over time … rentals have substantial positive effects on agricultural productivity: an efficient reallocation of land increases …