While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, previous research has mostly failed to … identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. This non-result is derived from revenue productivity (TFPR), thus also …

years of relatively rapid productivity growth between 1890 and 1972. Once the spin-off inventions from IR #2 (airplanes, air … conditioning, interstate highways) had run their course, productivity growth during 1972-96 was much slower than before. In …

The conventional wisdom in health economics is that large differences in average productivity across hospitals are the …, however, we find that productivity dispersion in heart attack treatment across hospitals is, if anything, smaller than in … productivity today is associated with about 4 percent more patients in 5 years. Taken together, these facts suggest that the …

differentiating between pure age effects of these theories and effects on size conditional on age. Our stylized facts highlight both … consistent with firm size correlations conditional on age but have difficulties matching the life-cycle dynamics of firm …

firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures … are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the …

land and construction prices, housing productivity is relatively low in larger cities. The increase in housing costs …