Selection, Agriculture, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences

By David Lagakos, Michael E. Waugh. 2013

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Land Reform and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data (2019, unknown): “…2009) into the study of the agricultural productivity gap across countries (e.g. Gollin, Parente and Rogerson, 2004; Caselli, 2005; Restuccia, Yang and Zhu, 2008; Adamopoulos, 2011; Lagakos and Waugh, 2013; Herrendorf and Schoellman, 2013; Gollin, Lagakos, and Waugh, 2014a, among many others).”
Innovation and Production in the Global Economy (2018, methodology): “We have some guidance from recent quantitative work for the value of this parameter, such as Lagakos & Waugh (2013), and Hsieh, Hurst, Jones & Klenow (2013).”
Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia (2016, background): “Other studies investigate the role of sorting based on unobservable comparative advantage in explaining technology adoption (Suri, 2011) and the large productivity gap between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors (Lagakos and Waugh, 2013).”
Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture (2015, background): “VII, I explore the robustness of my results to specifying a labor supply based on worker selection, akin to Lagakos and Waugh (2013).”
Urbanization with and without industrialization (2015, result): “This result is consistent with the presence of dual economies within developing countries, where some type of barrier (either explicit or implicit) prevents earnings from being equalized across sectors (Vollrath 2009a, b; Lagakos and Waugh 2013; Gollin et al. 2014).”
The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences (2014, unknown): “More specifically, in the context of a model of agriculture and development, selection effects have been explored by Lagakos and Waugh (2013) whereby exogenous differences in productivity are amplified substantially by selection of workers between agriculture and nonagriculture.”
On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa (2017, background): “Urban bias in the provision of such public goods has led to a concentration of the lowest ability workers in agriculture, which some analysts hypothesize accounts for the stark observed sector gaps in labor productivity (Lagakos and Waugh 2013).”
Growth and Structural Transformation (2013, background): “In a recent paper, Lagakos and Waugh (2013) argue that accounting for the heterogeneous quality of labor across sectors is important in understanding the fact that poor countries seem to be have particularly low labor productivity in agriculture.”
The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration (2018, background): “The model also features sorting by comparative advantage in the urban and rural regions, as in Roy (1951), following a number of recent studies (including Herrendorf and Schoellman, 2018; Hicks, Kleemans, Li, and Miguel, 2017; Lagakos and Waugh, 2013; Young, 2013).”
Export expansion, skill acquisition and industry specialization: evidence from china (2018, methodology): “A Roy model of educational choice I Lagakos and Waugh (2013), Hsieh et al. (2013) and Burstein, Morales and Vogel (2015) I Educational choice based on individual comparative advantage and local labor market conditions 2.”
The effects of land markets on resource allocation and agricultural productivity (2017, unknown): “Restuccia and Santaeulàlia-Llopis (2017) use micro data from Malawi and estimate the capital, labor, and land shares to be 0.”