The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries

By D. Gollin, David Lagakos, Michael E. Waugh. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture (2019, neutral): “Value added per worker in African agriculture appears to be less than half the level attained in other sectors, even after adjusting for differences in input quantity and quality (Gollin et al., 2014).”
Structural Transformation in Africa: Static Gains, Dynamic Losses (2015, background): “The framework in this paper is not suitable for analysing inter-industry linkages and spillovers in the tradition of Hirschman (1958). For example, improvements in distribution services might stimulate domestic manufacturing activities by development of local or regional value chains.”
The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies (2017, methodology): “…who show that, in a sample of 29 developed and developing countries, the correlation between hours worked and employment shares is close to one and Gollin, Lagakos, and Waugh (2014) who show that correcting labor productivity measures for hours worked does not overturn the result that labor…”
WHAT IS DRIVING THE ‘AFRICAN GROWTH MIRACLE’? (2014, methodology): “However, in a recent paper Gollin et al (2012) use micro data to take into account sectoral differences in hours worked and human capital as well as alternative measures of sectoral income and they still find large differences in productivity between Page 12 of 51 agriculture and other sectors of…”
The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa (2019, background): “11Recent work on structural change has emphasized the importance of the manufacturing sector (Gollin et al. , 2002; Lagakos & Waugh, 2013; Gollin et al. , 2014; Rodrik, 2015); improvements in trends in structural change in Africa in the 2000s (McMillan & Harttgen, 2014; McMillan & Rodrik, 2014);…”
Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches (2020, positive): “The main argument that has been used in support of the need for a structural transformation as the mechanism to grow and reduce poverty is that there is a large labor productivity gap between agriculture and non-agriculture (Gollin et al., 2014).”