productivity (TFP). In this article, we summarize a recent literature - and the articles in this special issue on misallocation and … productivity - that focus on the reallocation of factors across heterogeneous production units as an important source of measured …

productivity (TFP). In this article, we summarize a recent literature — and the articles in this special issue on misallocation … and productivity — that focus on the reallocation of factors across heterogenous production units as an important source …

productivity using a quantitative sectoral model featuring a distribution of farms. Measured aggregate factors (capital, land …, economy-wide productivity) account for ? of the observed differences in farm size and productivity. Policies and institutions …-size distortions which together with aggregate factors accounts for ? of the cross-country differences in size and productivity. …

Using detailed household-farm level data from Malawi, we measure real farm total factor productivity (TFP) controlling … are essentially unrelated to farm TFP implying a strong negative effect on agricultural productivity. A reallocation of … factors to their efficient use among existing farmers would increase agricultural productivity by a factor of 3.6-fold. We …

particular, low total factor productivity (TFP) in Latin America. I estimate that to explain the difference in GDP per hour, TFP … production units where institutions and policy distortions lead to a 60 percent productivity ratio between Latin America and the … United States. Removing the barriers to productivity can increase long-run GDP per hour in Latin America by a factor of 4 …

assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in explaining … schooling in poor than in rich countries consistent with the data. These results highlight the importance of productivity and … development in education, emphasizing the crucial role of productivity improvements in poor countries relative to often …

labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …

use the model to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy differences across countries in …

productivity (TFP). This article summarises the evidence on the importance of resource allocation across productive units in …

-country productivity differences are larger in manufacturing than in services. The service sector comprises heterogeneous categories. We … with an input-output structure, we find that cross-country productivity differences are much larger in non … productivity difference is reduced by more than half when abstracting from intermediate inputs. Development requires an emphasis on …