U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S … intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an …

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 … differences across countries using high-resolution micro-geography data and a spatial accounting framework. Our rich spatial data …

-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 …

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 … threshold - observed across the world and in low-income countries. We show that the existence of labor-market transaction costs …

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in … of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of …

assess the empirical performance of Ricardo's ideas. We use novel agricultural data that describe the productivity in 17 … crops of 1.6 million parcels of land in 55 countries around the world. Crucially, this dataset contains information about … the productivity of each parcel of land in all crops, not just those that are currently being grown. This direct …