This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations …

This paper sets up a model to account for differences in total factor productivity due to differences in enforcement of … contracts. Vertical specialization generates the need for intra-period credit, because final goods producers cannot pay their … lower in economies with bad enforcement. For this reason, the high-productivity firms in the intermediate goods sector have …