exogenous productivity shocks arising from variation in temperature are propagated into the future. We find that past weather … shocks have persistent effects on land values and productivity up to two years following the shock. Propagation and … amplification of productivity shocks are both significantly larger during the farm debt crisis of the 1980s and amongst farms in …

increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … revolution and point to the importance of taking into account farmer heterogeneity in estimating productivity and returns to …

aims to determine the impact of access to credit on agricultural productivity in Benin using alternative measures of … productivity. To do this, we use the endogenous switching regression model to control for potential selection and unobserved …