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 …

exogenous productivity shocks arising from variation in temperature are propagated into the future. We find that past weather … shocks have persistent effects on land values and productivity up to two years following the shock. Propagation and … amplification of productivity shocks are both significantly larger during the farm debt crisis of the 1980s and amongst farms in …

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 …

financing constraint. We ask: does the model, when parameterized to match salient characteristics of plant-level data (Colombia …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

that links these features of the business environment to cross-firm productivity distributions, entrepreneurs' welfare, and …

We define aggregate productivity growth as the change in aggregate final demand minus the change in the aggregate cost … and sunk costs, and market power. We compare our measure of aggregate productivity growth to several competing variants … differ substantially from these measures of aggregate productivity growth. We illustrate this using panel data from …

shedding. We also find that after factor market deregulation in Colombia in 1991, factor adjustment hazards increased on the … would yield a substantial increase in aggregate productivity through improved allocative efficiency. Yet, the actual impact … of the Colombian deregulation on aggregate productivity through factor adjustment was modest …

dataset for Colombia for the period 1982-1998 we examine the interaction between market allocation, productivity and …In the U.S., some sectoral evidence suggests that growth is driven mainly by productivity enhancing reallocation. In … developing countries, an open question is whether reallocation is productivity enhancing. Using a unique plant-level longitudinal …