We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … agricultural productivity. Our estimates indicate that information frictions can explain around 25 percent of the agricultural … productivity gap between the most productive and the least productive areas in our sample …

innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations--let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and …

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 …

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the … agricultural productivity? We develop a model of heterogeneous farms making cropping choices and investing in productivity … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning …

, productivity is higher. The probabilistic matching model of Diamond, Mortensen, and others provides a way to make the idea of …

such models in analyzing the production structure, the determinants of variable and quasi-fixed factors, and productivity … growth. The paper also discusses the traditional approach to productivity analysis based on the Divisia index number …

sector ownership has no independent impact on productivity growth. The finding that ownership per se does not matter, but …

countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … trade patterns in determining technology flows that affect productivity by using industry level data for machinery goods … imports and productivity in eight OECD countries between 1970-91. First evidence that these countries benefit more from …