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Agriculture and aggregation

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Córdoba, Juan Carlos
Ripoll, Marla

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We study the shape of the aggregate production function in the presence of land-intensive agriculture. The traditional Cobb-Douglas formulation is corrected to include a "diversification component." The implied TFP differences across countries are larger than what Solow residuals suggest.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Economics Letters.

Volume (Year): 105 (2009)
Issue (Month): 1 (October)
Pages: 110-112
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Keywords: Aggregate production function Diversification Solow residuals Development accounting;

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