The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences

By Tasso Adamopoulos, Diego Restuccia. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Domestic Trade Frictions and Agriculture (2015, background): “…and proposes explanations for this finding, such as worker sorting across sectors (Lagakos and Waugh 2013), policy barriers to efficient farm size (Adamopoulos and Restuccia 2014), exposure to uninsurable shocks 5 Earlier theoretical work has anticipated the distributional within-country effects…”
Labour Market Effects of Large-Scale Agricultural Investment: Conceptual Considerations and Estimated Employment Effects (2017, background): “These differences in agricultural productivity can be explained by a variety of factors: First, poli- cies that distort farm size may lead to a misallocation of farmland and impair productivity (Adamopoulos & Restuccia, 2014).”
Harvesting Prosperity: Technology and Productivity Growth in Agriculture (2019, unknown): “In this view, a continued preponderance of small farms may indicate that land market distortions constrain overall agricultural growth and competitiveness (Collier and Dercon 2014; Adamopoulos and Restuccia 2014; Otsuka, Liu, and Yamauchi 2016).”
On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa (2017, background): “Some recent cross-country evidence further suggests that policies meant to limit farm sizes may lead to productivity reducing misallocation of land (Adamopoulus and Restuccia 2014).”
The puzzle of East and Southeast Asia's persistent smallholder (2016, background): “While the programme was not as comprehensive as its title suggests, it did play a role in causing average farm size in the Philippines to decline from 2.85 ha in 1981 to 2.01 ha in 2002, with a corresponding fall in productivity of some 8 percent (Adamopoulos and Restuccia, 2013: 34).”
Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture (2019, unknown): “2 See, for example, Adamopoulos and Restuccia 2014, Adamopoulos and Restuccia 2015, Adamopoulos et al. 2017, Bento and Restuccia 2016, Restuccia and Santaeulalia-Llopis 2017. 3 See, for example, Dillon and Barrett (2017) for a set of African countries; Karlan et al. (2014) for Ghana, Udry (1994a) fo”
Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting (2019, unknown): “…in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), have brought renewed attention to agricultural productivity in poor countries (Gollin, Lagokos and Waugh, 2013; Adamopoulos and Restuccia, 2014; Van Ittersum et al., 2016), to agricultural factor allocation (Restuccia and Santaeulalia-Llopis, 2017; Gollin and…”
Misallocation, Establishment Size, and Productivity (2017, unknown): “…such as agriculture from Census data where the operational scale of farms in rich countries is 34 times that of poor countries (see for instance, Adamopoulos and Restuccia, 2014). in the model is the extent to which distortions that effectively penalize more productive relative to less…”