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 …

In this paper we show that the study of the farm size-productivity relationship hinges on the choice of productivity … measure. Our main insight is that using yields, a partial measure of productivity, may not be informative for the size-productivity … relationship because, in addition to total factor productivity, yields pick up input markets distortions and deviations from …

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 …

by crop for small spatial units. Crucially, this dataset contains information about the productivity of all units for all … in magnitude to those due to productivity improvements over that same period …

productivity. TRAIL loans also achieved higher repayment and take-up rates, and lower administrative costs …