Paula Bustos

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Paula Bustos is a Researcher at CREI and Ramon y Cajal Researcher at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She has also been Adjunct Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra since 2006 and Research Affiliate of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 2010. She completed her PhD at Harvard University and her research interests include international trade and development economics

The introduction of labor-saving technologies in agriculture can release workers who find occupation in the manufacturing sector. The traditional view is that this structural transformation process leads to economic growth.

Several scholars argue that high agricultural productivity can retard industrial development because it draws resources toward the comparative advantage sector, agriculture.

In this paper, published in the American Economic Review, Bustos, Caprettini and Ponticelli (2016) study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation.

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Paula Bustos

Researcher's Grant Projects

Agricultural Productivity and Economic Development: Evidence from Brazil

Agricultural Productivity and Industrial Growth. Evidence from Brazil

Researcher's Publications

Industrialization without Innovation

Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation

Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Brazil