Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can …

-level data from the Census of Agriculture, we show that the adoption of milking machines triggered a process of structural …

, the descendants of societies that traditionally practiced plough agriculture, today have lower rates of female …

Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be …

-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …

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 …

advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …

relatively costless. These results highlight the role of improved basic methods in boosting agricultural productivity among poor …