Farm work, home work and international productivity differences

Douglas Gollin; Stephen L. Parente; Richard Rogerson

doi:10.1016/j.red.2004.05.003

Farm work, home work and international productivity differences

Douglas Gollin
, Stephen L. Parente
, Richard Rogerson

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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 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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	827-850
Number of pages	24
Journal	Review of Economic Dynamics
Volume	7
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2004.05.003
State	Published - Oct 2004
Externally published	Yes

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Economics and Econometrics

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