Agriculture and aggregate productivity: A quantitative cross-country analysis

By Diego Restuccia, D. Yang, Xiaodong Zhu. 2008

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Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food (2020, neutral): “It is often seen as proof that agriculture is intrinsically less productive and as suggestive that the policy solution for agricultural labor in the developing world lies in removing barriers that prevent people from exiting agriculture (Restuccia et al., 2008).”
CAN TRADITIONAL THEORIES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE FIT THE DATA (2009, background): “Models that incorporate the role of human capital (Buera and Kaboski 2008) and/or sector specific distortions (Herrendorf and Valentinyi 2007b; Buera, Kaboski, and Shin 2008, Restuccia, Yang, and Zhao 2008) may be fruitful in explaining the divergence between labor and value-added shares.”
Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico (2015, background): “With a focus on increasing the efficiency of land use, land certification and titling programs that remove constraints on land use and allow land transactions have been widely sponsored by national governments and international development agencies (Heath 1990).”
Selection, Agriculture, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences (2013, methodology): “…wages are much lower in agriculture than non-agriculture even though there there are no barriers to workers moving between sectors (as in the models of Caselli and Coleman (2001), Restuccia, Yang, and Zhu (2008), Herrendorf and Teixeira (2011), Adamopoulos and Restuccia (2011), and Tombe (2011)).”
The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries (2011, neutral): “For helpful comments we thank Francesco Caselli, Matthias Doepke, Berthold Herrendorf, Larry Huffman, Per Krusell, Kiminori Matsuyama, Maggie McMillan, Ed Prescott, Victor Rios Rull, Richard Rogerson, Mark Rosenzweig, Todd Schoellman, Francis Teal, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Dietz Vollrath, as well as…”
Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India (2020, neutral): “…2021), risk sharing (Townsend, 1994), the impact of microcredit (Kaboski and Townsend, 2011), property rights (e.g., Adamopoulos, Brandt, Leight, and Restuccia, 2017), and the farm size distribution (Restuccia, Yang, and Zhu, 2008; Adamopoulos and Restuccia, 2014; Restuccia and Rogerson, 2017).”
Climate Change and Agriculture: Subsistence Farmers’ Response to Extreme Heat (2019, background): “This prediction is relevant because subsistence farmers in rural Peru (and other parts of the developing world) likely face severe imperfections in input markets (Gollin et al., 2013, Restuccia et al., 2008).”
Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture (2015, methodology): “Restuccia et al. (2008) estimate that value added per worker in agriculture in the top 5 percent richest countries in the world is 78 times larger than that of the bottom 5 percent. 5Based on my quantitative model, I use Revenue TFP (TFPR) in the sense used by Hsieh and Klenow (2009), who find that ”
Growth and Structural Transformation (2013, positive): “1 Structural Transformation and Economic Development Caselli (2005) and Restuccia et al. (2006) argue that the proximate cause of much of the large differences in living standards across countries is attributable to two simple facts: (1) developing countries are much less productive in agriculture r”
Intermediate Goods and Weak Links in the Theory of Economic Development (2011, background): “The effects of complementarity are more subtle and difficult to quantify — often turning out to be smaller than one might have expected — in part because they must constantly be weighed (1)Recent work on this topic includes Romer (1994), Klenow and Rodriguez-Clare (1997), Prescott (1998), Hall and J”