that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …. In fact, agriculture in most developing countries has very low productivity relative to the rest of the economy … from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people …

cropland productivity and economic development in China. We exploit a county’s river gradient and elevation to deal with the … of dams on agriculture and economic growth in China and highlights dams’ distributional impacts …