The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences

Tasso Adamopoulos and Diego Restuccia

American Economic Review, 2014, vol. 104, issue 6, 1667-97

Abstract: We study the determinants of di fferences in farm-size across countries and their impact on agricultural and aggregate 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 that misallocate resources across farms have the potential to account for the remaining diff erences. Exploiting within-country variation in crop-specifi c price distortions and their correlation with farm size, we construct a cross-country measure of farm-size distortions which together with aggregate factors accounts for ? of the cross-country diff erences in size and productivity.

JEL-codes: D24 J24 J43 L11 O13 Q12 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.6.1667
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