Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … rarely focused on the institutional factors that might underpin such structural transformation and productivity. This paper … government land reallocations and formal land-use certificates on agricultural productivity growth, as well as the likelihood of …

productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of agricultural productivity on employment growth and structural … village sample leads to underestimation of agriculture's role in employment growth and transformation of non-farm activities …. Using rainfall as an instrument for agricultural productivity, empirical analysis finds a significant positive effect of …

This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented … activities, and labor allocation between own farming and wage labor in agriculture. To guide the empirical work, this paper …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on …

This study estimates and compares the effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland productivity in South … although large dams increase cropland productivity downstream, they have a negative effect on cropland within the vicinity …

elasticity of demand and the wage elasticity with respect to productivity increase in agriculture. For productivity growth to … agricultural productivity in structural transformation in the labor market. The empirical work is based on a general equilibrium … significant positive effect of agricultural productivity on rice yield and agricultural wages. Productivity shock increases wages …

agriculture in GDP decreases as countries develop. The cross-country growth literature typically estimates an aggregate … technology differences across countries. Using a unique World Bank dataset, it estimates production functions for agriculture and … produce useful measures of the nature of the technology or productivity. It shows that many of the puzzling elements in …

regional agricultural productivity to changes in water salinity. To do so, it utilizes several local and global data sets on … water quality and agricultural productivity and a model that isolates the impact of exogenous changes in water salinity on …