Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high-quality time use data for 50 countries spanning the global...

Untersucht wird, in welchem Umfang spezifische internationale Organisationen (hier das International Rice Research Institute, Philippinen) und Programme zur Entwicklung und Verbreitung neuer, besserer Reissorten beigetragen haben. Nach einer knappen Abhandlung von Reisanbaumethoden und der...

According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the nonagricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, particularly in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap'' suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across...

In most developing countries, there is a large gap in average consumption per capita between urban and rural areas. One appealing interpretation of this gap is that it reflects a spatial equilibrium, in which the higher consumption levels of urban areas are offset by lower non-monetary...