While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … cross-country regressions analysing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect insignificant or … agricultural productivity which is robust to changes in the control variables and in the econometric methods applied …

that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing … countries. We distinguish between land productivity and labor productivity and find that the poor identified by low incomes …, poor education outcomes, poor health outcomes, low land productivity and low labor productivity overlap only to a small …