No mangoes in the tundra: Spatial heterogeneity in agricultural productivity analysis

Eberhardt, Markus; Teal, Francis

Abstract

In line with the wider macro productivity literature existing studies of agricultural production largely neglect technology heterogeneity, variable time-series properties and the potential for heterogeneous but correlated total factor productivity (TFP) across countries. Our empirical approach accommodates these difficulties and seeks to model the nature of the cross-section dependence in a sample of 128 countries (1961-2002). Our results suggest that agro-climatic environment drives similarity in TFP evolution across countries with heterogeneous production technology. This provides a possible explanation for the failure of technology transfer from advanced countries of the temperate 'North' to arid and/or equatorial developing countries of the 'South'. © 2012 The Department of Economics, University of Oxford and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Citation

Eberhardt, M., & Teal, F. (2013). No mangoes in the tundra: Spatial heterogeneity in agricultural productivity analysis. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 75(6), 914-939. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00720.x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Nov 21, 2013
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Mar 26, 2021
• Journal: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
• Print ISSN: 0305-9049
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-0084
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 75
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 914-939
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00720.x
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3182497
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2012.00720.x