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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper discusses a portion of our work linking data on the agriculture sector in the United States and Canada. The … purpose of this work is to explore the evolution of gains in agricultural productivity in the two countries during the post …

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

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

We assess the effects of a major land policy change on farm size and agricultural productivity using a quantitative … redistributed farm lands. We study this reform in the context of an industry model of agriculture with a non-degenerate distribution … can reduce agricultural productivity not only by misallocating resources across farmers but also by distorting farmers …

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 …