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Restuccia, Diego - 2017

Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of outputs and inputs in agricultural production, we measure total factor productivity (TFP) for farms controlling for land quality, rain, and other transitory shocks. We find that operated land size and capital are...

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Land Misallocation and Productivity

Restuccia, Diego - 2017

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The Causes and Costs of Misallocation

Restuccia, Diego - 2017

Why do living standards differ so much across countries? A consensus in the development literature is that differences in productivity are a dominant source of these differences. But what accounts for productivity differences across countries? One explanation is that frontier technologies and...

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On Average Establishment Size Across Sectors and Countriesy

Bento, Pedro - 2018

We construct a new dataset for the average employment size of establishments across sectors and countries from hundreds of sources. Establishments are larger in manufacturing than in services, and in each sector they are larger in richer countries. The cross-country income elasticity of...

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Financial Frictions and the Rule of Law

Ranasinghe, Ashantha - 2018

that integrates institutional differences in the degree of financial development and the rule of law, we quantify the … establishments in access to finance and crime as obstacles to their operation. Weaker financial development and rule of law have … substantial negative effects on aggregate output, reducing output per capita by 50 percent. Weak rule-of-law institutions …

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Geography and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data

Adamopoulos, Tasso - 2018

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity differences across countries using high-resolution...

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