regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …

increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … fertilizer amounts and the marginal returns to fertilizer use. The results demonstrate the key changes behind this silent maize … revolution and point to the importance of taking into account farmer heterogeneity in estimating productivity and returns to …

Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …

exogenous productivity shocks arising from variation in temperature are propagated into the future. We find that past weather … shocks have persistent effects on land values and productivity up to two years following the shock. Propagation and … amplification of productivity shocks are both significantly larger during the farm debt crisis of the 1980s and amongst farms in …

While many developing-country policymakers see heavy fertilizer subsidies as critical to raising agricultural … productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in … politicized, inefficient distribution of fertilizer supply. We model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer …

end-of-period stocks. We also derive measures of productivity and capacity utilization for the adopted modeling framework …

returns to scale. Furthermore, the paper gives a decomposition of the traditional measure of total factor productivity growth …

efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …

model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … growth than the sum of the contributions of parent and affiliate employment, and materials; (2) productivity has boomed since … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …

with taking up and following through with a new technology: a tree species that provides private fertilizer benefits to …