-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively?affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The … paper develops a theoretical model that decomposes the contribution of various market imperfections to the gender … productivity gap. The paper shows empirically that agricultural labor productivity is on average 44 percent lower on plots managed …

of productive resources away from the most productive agents. Second, following an adverse productivity shock there is a … dynamic trade-off between the immediate fall in output, which is an efficient response to the productivity fall, and the fall … some inflation variability, even if the only shocks in the economy are productivity shocks. The optimal variability of …