A considerable literature has focused on the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP), prompted by the empirical … representative consumer is summarized by current and anticipated future Solow productivity residuals. The equivalence holds for any … parametrically. This result justifies total factor productivity as the right summary measure of welfare, even in situations where it …

: current and future total factor productivity and the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare … production technology and the degree of market competition. It applies to open economies as well, if total factor productivity is … factor productivity be constructed with prices and quantities as perceived by consumers, not firms. Thus, factor shares need …

In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder … between productivity and scale to use surveys with a narrow geographic reach, when policy would be better served with studies … the inverse productivity hypothesis holds up well across a broad platform of data, despite obvious shortcomings with some …

agricultural productivity. The empirical studies on the gender gap, however, have frequently used data that were limited regarding … agricultural productivity distribution into (i) a portion driven by gender differences in levels of observable attributes (the … productivity distribution, ranging from 22 percent at the 10th percentile to 37 percent at the 90th percentile. While it is …