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 …

even feared that it may reduce total factor productivity (TFP) and may discourage recipient countries ́efforts. This study …) on productivity, controlling for institutional factors and economic policy, using time-series panel techniques and … focusing solely on the aid-productivity link. In order to examine possible vicious circles of aid, we run quantile regressions …

While the majority of micro studies finds that rural education increases agricultural productivity, various recent … cross-country regressions analyzing the determinants of agricultural productivity were only able to detect an insignificant … attainment, we show that education indeed has a highly significant, positive effect on agricultural productivity which is robust …