Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor … productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct … dramatically relative to labor prices; concurrently, capital and intermediate input use in agriculture increases by a factor of 300 …

Moving labor from agriculture to manufacturing - "industrialization" - is often viewed as essential for the development … Development Centre and build a new dataset of comparable labor productivity levels in agriculture and manufacturing for 64 mostly …

urbanization and structural transformation. Using household microdata from India and exogenous variation in migration opportunities …, market adaptation mitigates over three-fourths of the direct agricultural losses from urbanization. Spatial reorganization …

higher in developing-world cities than in rural areas, and historically urbanization is strongly correlated with economic … growth. Education seems to be a strong complement to urbanization, and entrepreneurial human capital correlates strongly with …

agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …

Agriculture dominated the economy of eighteenth-century British America, and the pace of agricultural productivity …

The nineteenth century was a period of expansion and transformation of American agriculture. While much is known about …