We assess the effects of land markets on misallocation and productivity by exploiting effective variation in land … increase agricultural productivity. Our evidence builds from an empirical difference-in-difference strategy and a calibrated … quantitative macroeconomic framework with heterogeneous household-farms that replicates—without targeting—the empirical effects, an …

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or … constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity … geographic regions, we find that low agricultural productivity in poor countries is not due to poor land endowments. If countries …

aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

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 growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been a qualified success. Total factor productivity growth … and the rise in agricultural productivity. The case study of Ghana clearly reflects these broader findings …

productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

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 …