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 …

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

Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique …

Russia, we find that these sanctions substantially decreased bilateral trade of Russia, mainly due to reduced trade with the …

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 …

Biotic factors such as pests create biodiversity effects that increase production risks and decrease land productivity … when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is … incomplete under free trade because of the decrease in land productivity. Pesticides allow farmers to reduce these biodiversity …