A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among … smallholder farmers. Applying standard regression-based approaches to measuring productivity residuals, we find much larger …

rate spread, and non-performing loans. A TFP decomposition finds that most of the productivity gains are captured by a …

manufacturing firms in Uganda, which uncovers an active rental market for large machines between small firms in informal clusters … market is quantitatively important for mechanization and productivity since it provides a workaround for other market …

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

"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 …

because high productivity cities like New York and the San Francisco Bay Area have adopted stringent restrictions to new … housing supply, effectively limiting the number of workers who have access to such high productivity. Using a spatial …

firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority …, doubling from an elasticity of 0.07 for pay on productivity for the median-paid employee to 0.15 for the top-paid employee … rising productivity can explain 40% of the rise in within-firm inequality since 1980 …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …

care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …

Productivity reflects not only how efficiently inputs are transformed into outputs, but also how well information is …