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Agricultural Productivity Change in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania

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  • Ball, D. E.
  • Walton, G. M.

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Our tentative estimates indicate that total factor productivity growth in the agricultural sector advanced at a rate between 0.2 and 0.3 percent per year during the colonial period and then remained constant for the remainder of the century, while labor productivity advanced at an average rate of about 0.4 percent over the colonial period. We point out the many difficulties encountered in making such estimates and hope that our contribution will serve as a guide for further research in early American agricultural history as well as help to increase our understanding of the rate and trend in growth of the early American economy.

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  • Ball, D. E. & Walton, G. M., 1976. "Agricultural Productivity Change in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 36(1), pages 102-117, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:36:y:1976:i:01:p:102-117_09
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    1. Rosenbloom, Joshua L. & Weiss, Thomas, 2014. "Economic growth in the Mid-Atlantic region: Conjectural estimates for 1720 to 1800," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 41-59.
    2. Winifred Rothenberg, 1992. "The Productivity Consequences of Market Integration: Agriculture in Massachusetts, 1771-1801," NBER Chapters, in: American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War, pages 311-344, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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