Alston, Julian M.; Okrent, Abigail M.; Parks, Joanna - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
How much has food abundance, attributable to U.S. public agricultural R&D, contributed to the high and rising U ….S. obesity rates? In this paper we investigate the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D on food prices, per capita … we use an econometric model to estimate the average effect of an incremental investment in agricultural R&D on the farm …