productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key … questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self …-sectional correlation between exporting and total factor productivity is accounted for by both selection and learning effects. These results …

of climate change on sectoral reallocation and aggregate productivity. First, I use firm-level data from a wide range of … countries to estimate the effect of temperature on productivity in manufacturing and services. Estimates suggest that extreme … heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to …

.S. agricultural productivity using 1940-1970 historical weather data (mean and variation) as the norm. We have four major findings … a state's productivity. Third, the impacts of THI load shock and Oury index shock variables (deviations from historical … norm fluctuations) on productivity are more robust than the level of THI and Oury index variables across specifications …

How will a nation's aggregate urban productivity be affected by climate change? The joint distribution of climate … heterogeneous firms within an industry. Our analysis suggests that high productivity firms are more likely to adopt AC since they … suffer larger productivity losses when it is hot. Given that the most productive firms produce a disproportionate share of …

factor productivity, and climate sensitivity. It estimates the pdfs of key output variables, including CO2 concentrations …