Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential … productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity … productivity growth, reducing their contributions toward aggregate productivity growth, resulting in its slowdown. We find that …

work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development depends on the … soybean seeds in Brazil, which had heterogeneous effects on agricultural productivity across areas with different soil and …