behavior of productivity during expansions will be analyzed for twenty production branches by applying the methodology proposed … by Leamer (2007), based on the decomposition of contributions to the growth of the productivity of each of these branches … productivity during recessions as well as those that have created an important stimulus to productivity during expansions. …

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the … context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market … distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result, a positive relationship between farm productivity and land size may turn …