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International Productivity Patterns: Accounting for Input Quality, Infrastructure, and Research
Author(s) -
Craig Barbara J.,
Pardey Philip G.,
Roseboom Johannes
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1244264
Subject(s) - productivity , sample (material) , agricultural productivity , quality (philosophy) , agriculture , work (physics) , econometrics , economics , natural resource economics , business , geography , macroeconomics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , chemistry , archaeology , epistemology , chromatography , engineering
In this paper, we present measures of land and labor productivity for a group of ninety‐eight developed and developing countries using an entirely new data set with annual observations spanning the past three decades. The substantial cross‐country and intertemporal variation in productivity in our sample is linked to both natural and economic factors. We extend previous work by dealing with multiple sources of systematic measurement error in conventional agricultural inputs. The mix of conventional inputs, indicators of quality of agricultural inputs, and the amount of publicly provided infrastructure are all significant in explaining observed cross‐sectional differences in productivity patterns.