Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the … for agricultural households in India over half a decade. Accounting for unobserved heterogeneity in individual responses … droughts, and are consequently unable to cope fully with the adverse agricultural productivity shock. Our findings can be …

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 …

productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural … productivity. We use two different agricultural production measures: (i) the agricultural component of GDP and (ii) agricultural … labor productivity. Employing a combination of panel-data and instrumental- variable methods, we show that agricultural …

This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict … the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permanent improvements in agricultural productivity, we exploit the … introduction of potatoes from the Americas to the Old World after the Columbian Exchange. We find that the introduction of potatoes …

and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to …

-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 …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even … power disruption seems to significantly depress adoption and returns to ICT expenditures in India. This may be indicative of …