Inter-temporal trends in agricultural productivity / Samuel Benin and Alejandro Nin Pratt -- Spatial patterns of agricultural productivity / Stanley Wood, Zhe Guo, and Ulrike Wood-Sichra -- Typology of agricultural productivity zones / Bingxin Yu and Zhe Guo -- Agricultural intensification and...

Measuring factor productivity has been important in economics since its early days as a scientific discipline for a number of reasons. The first is the availability of systematically collected agricultural data after World War I, which allowed researchers to motivate and test newly developed...

We examine the plausibility of four established and innovative identification strategies for agricultural production functions using farm-level panel datasets from five EU countries. Newly suggested proxy and dynamic panel approaches provide attractive conceptual improvements over received...