全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP14269 Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship

G2TT

来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14269
	DP14269 Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship
	Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado; Francesco Amodio; Markus Poschke
发表日期	2020-01-03
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	Output per worker is lower in agriculture than in other sectors, and relatively more so in poor countries. Sorting of heterogeneous workers can contribute to explain this fact if comparative and absolute advantage are aligned in agriculture, implying that average productivity in agriculture increases as the agricultural employment share decreases. We empirically investigate the correlation between comparative and absolute advantage using representative household-level panel data from four Sub-Saharan African countries. We exploit information on households who engage in both agriculture and non-farm entrepreneurship -- about a third of the population. We find that more productive farming households are more likely to also engage in non-farm entrepreneurship, allocate more hours to it if they do, and are more likely to enter it if not yet active. All three pieces of evidence imply that comparative and absolute advantage are negatively correlated -- misaligned -- in agriculture, casting doubt on the importance of selection as a root cause of the agricultural productivity gap.
主题	Development Economics ; Macroeconomics and Growth
关键词	Agricultural productivity gap Selection entrepreneurship Africa
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14269-0
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543160
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado,Francesco Amodio,Markus Poschke. DP14269 Selection and Absolute Advantage in Farming and Entrepreneurship. 2020.