The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively …. Our revised estimates of Parker and Klein's productivity calculations indicate that biological innovations account for … roughly one-half of labor productivity growth between 1839 and 1909 …

increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … 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 …

We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among …

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among … smallholder farmers. Applying standard regression-based approaches to measuring productivity residuals, we find much larger …

We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated …

west German per capita level, and convergence seems to have come to a halt at an overall labor productivity of only 55% of …

, over several years, of public highway capital which then temporarily boosts private sector productivity and local demand …