induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …

-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … where the effects of incentives are determined by the strength of son preference, the cost of children, and the cost of sex …-selection, relative to the size of incentives. Second, I create a woman-year panel dataset from retrospective birth histories and use …

and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … the findings of existing research, increasing the power of group-based financial incentives does not reduce the positive … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. -- entry ; productivity ; institutions ; regulations ; India ; reforms …

education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even …

value added. -- Productivity ; growth decomposition ; efficiency ; manufacturing … while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … explained by growth in the use of factor inputs. We also find that median technical efficiency declined in all but one of the …

survey in India to estimate the effect of agricultural productivity shocks - as proxied by exogenous annual rainfall … child labor across a range of work activities. Additionally, we show that productivity-enhancing inputs such as land … market imperfections (in labor and land markets). We also find that the effects of productivity shocks are reinforced for …