Farm Work, Home Work and International Productivity Differences

Douglas Gollin (), Stephen Parente () and Richard Rogerson

No 2002-08, Department of Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: Agriculture's share of economic activity is known to vary inversely with a country's level of development. This paper examines whether extensions of the neoclassical growth model can account for some important sectoral patterns observed in a current cross-section of countries and in the time series data for currently rich countries. We find that a straightforward agricultural extension of the neoclassical growth model restricted to match U.S. observations fails to account for important aspects of the cross-country data. We then introduce a version of the growth model with home production, and we show that this model performs much better.

Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2001-03
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Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2004, vol. 7, issue 4, pages 827-850

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