We assess the importance of land misallocation for productivity in agriculture using a quantitative model and detailed household-level data from Malawi. The land market is largely underdeveloped in Malawi as the vast majority of land is transmitted by inheritance, almost none of the land is...

We use new and unique nationally-representative panel ISA data for Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda to explore the degree of consumption insurance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Partly, our contribution is to construct accurate and consistent measures of consumption and income across time and space for these...

We construct a panel data of income and consumption of Chinese households from 1989 to 2009 from the publicly available China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). We use the Nutrition Survey from the CHNS, that has a detailed account of the dietary information at the household level, to construct...

In this paper, we use an extended version of the neoclassical multi-country growth model to explore the efficiency in the allocation of physical capital across countries. In our framework, the observed marginal product of capital (MPK) can differ across countries because of two different...

The large differences in income per capita across countries are mostly explained by differences total factor productivity (TFP). What explains differences in TFP across countries? Evidence suggests that the (mis)allocation of factors of production across heterogenous production units is an...