This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …

In poor countries, labor productivity in agriculture is considerably lower than in the rest of the economy. We assess … than through labor productivities. Third, labor productivity in agriculture is severely mis-measured in the US. … between the marginal value products of agriculture and non-agriculture are considerably smaller when measured through wages …

While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and …

productivity differences and internal trade frictions. We show that even in the absence of the typical externalities studied in the … relative to that chosen by a planner. In particular, optimal urbanization exceeds decentralized levels when productivity … closer to optimal policies than decentralized allocations whenever productivity differences in non-traded sectors are either …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen …

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …