to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with each unit of energy. Treatment plants, after two years … error 7.3 percent). I assume that the treatment acted only through energy productivity to estimate the plant production … strongly to a productivity shock when plants can adjust these inputs …

directly to cultivators or non-landlords. Although Banerjee and Iyer (2005) find that agricultural productivity of non …

productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using …

Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use micro data on manufacturing … establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and …

We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … estimates of the contribution of labor, capital, education, and total factor productivity for the three sectors of agriculture …-2004, and an acceleration of growth when the period is divided at 1993. However, the magnitude of output growth in China is …

aggregate productivity. TFP gaps are characterized as the integral of a strictly concave function with respect to an employment … productivity is shown to be ambiguous; conditions are given to determine its sign. An empirical lower bound on distortions based on …

US, China, and India reveals substantial losses in productivity and output due to the informational friction. Our … estimates for these losses range from 7-10% for productivity and 10-14% for output in China and India, and are smaller, though …We propose a theory linking imperfect information to resource misallocation and hence to aggregate productivity and …

patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical … rentals have substantial positive effects on agricultural productivity: an efficient reallocation of land increases … agricultural productivity by 38 percent on average and by more than 50 percent in states with highly distorted rental markets. Both …