Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture

We are grateful to Philipp Wollburg for excellent research assistance. We have received helpful comments from seminar participants at Oxford CSAE, UAB Barcelona, Princeton, Heidelberg, UCLA, Yale, CEMFI-Madrid, Cambridge I-NET, University of St Andrew’s, University of Bristol, Graduate Institute in Geneva, University of Houston, the Society for Economic Dynamics in Edinburgh, Hebrew University, the University of Manchester, Tufts University, PUC, and the Edinburgh Workshop on Agricultural Productivity, Rural-Urban Migration, and Structural Transformation. We received many helpful comments from seminar participants and colleagues, but we particularly acknowledge Stefano Caria, Cheryl Doss, Andrew Foster, Sydney Gourlay, Talip Kilic, R. Vijay Krishna, Rocco Macchiavello, Dilip Mukherjee, Gabriella Santangelo, and Chris Woodruff. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.