agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural … productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …

Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … the productivity gap with rich countries. To achieve this, we leverage recent data releases by the Groningen Growth and …

Agriculture dominated the economy of eighteenth-century British America, and the pace of agricultural productivity … productivity advance in the Lower South between 1720 and 1800. Past efforts and quantification have focused exclusively on the … their short-term behavior, all of the indices show that long-run productivity improvements were modest at best, and may have …

Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in …). Accounting for individual fixed effects leads to much smaller estimated productivity gains from moving into the nonagricultural … fixed effects are included. Estimated productivity gaps do not emerge up to five years after a move between sectors. We …

productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct …Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

-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 …

from agriculture to non-agriculture and from rural to urban areas. We combine rich household and individual-level panel … substantial negative effects on agricultural productivity and structural change, raising the share of households operating farms … by almost 30 percentage points and depressing agricultural productivity by more than 10 percent. Quantitatively, land …

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in … of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of …

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and …