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 …

We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … agricultural productivity. Our estimates indicate that information frictions can explain around 25 percent of the agricultural … productivity gap between the most productive and the least productive areas in our sample …

We extend the conventional neoclassical production and growth framework, with its emphasis on total factor productivity … information goods available over the Internet, which bypass GDP and go directly to the consumer. It also leads to the concept of …