No Mangoes in the Tundra: Spatial Heterogeneity in Agricultural Productivity Analysis

By M. Eberhardt, F. Teal. 2013

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In line with the wider macro productivity literature existing studies of agricultural production largely neglect technology heterogeneity, variable time-series properties and the potential for heterogeneous but correlated total factor productivity (TFP) across countries. Our empirical approach accommodates these difficulties and seeks to model the nature of the cross-section dependence in a sample of 128 countries (1961–2002). Our results suggest that agro-climatic environment drives similarity in TFP evolution across countries with heterogeneous production technology. This provides a possible explanation for the failure of technology transfer from advanced countries of the temperate ‘North’ to arid and/or equatorial developing countries of the ‘South’.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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• R&D Capital, R&D Spillovers, and Productivity Growth in World Agriculture (2018, background): “In contrast, using agricultural patent data, Johnson and Evenson (1999) find that most international technology transfer occurs between high-income, temperate countries, and Eberhardt and Teal (2013) find that agricultural TFP growth is strongly correlated across similar agro-climatic environments. ”