study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …

A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity … productivity differences …

Agriculture renaissance means the renewed understanding and recommitment to the fundamental role of agriculture in the … least developed countries of the world, it could mean re-engaging agriculture's potential as a driver of overall economic …

factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth … traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands …

We examine aggregate productivity differences across nations using cross-country firm-level data and a quantitative … model of production heterogeneity with distortions featuring operation decisions (selection) and productivity …-level productivity, mostly resulting from the higher prevalence of unproductive firms. Quantitatively, measured cross-country differences …

Firm heterogeneity and the allocation of resources across firms play a key role in determining aggregate productivity …. Entry barriers and misallocation can substantially impact productivity, as evidenced in recent work. This article provides a …

aggregate performance. -- Firm heterogeneity ; productivity ; allocation of resources ; distortions …This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …