Macroeconomic development remains an important policy goal because of its ability to lift
entire populations out of poverty. In our review of the literature, we emphasize that the best …

We take stock of the major changes in methodology for studying the impacts of international
agricultural research, focusing on the period 2006–2020. Impact assessment of agricultural …

Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of outputs and
inputs in agricultural production, we measure total factor productivity (TFP) for farms …

Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa,
including on agricultural efficiency, equity, and structural transformation. Yet experimental …

This paper describes an emerging literature in economics that aims to merge macro issues
of structural change and growth with micro data and analysis. This literature focuses on a set …

Movement of labor from agriculture to nonagriculture and the associated increase in farm
size through structural transformation are at the core of economic development. We conduct …

Using detailed household-level data from Malawi on physical quantities of agricultural
outputs and inputs, we measure farm total factor productivity (TFP), controlling for land …

We exploit substantial variation in land-market institutions across Indian states and detailed
micro household-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on …

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in
developed countries where more productive farms are larger, but in less developed …

Recall biases in retrospective self-reported survey data have important implications for
empirical research. We leverage the survey design literature and test three strategies to …