U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …

.S. agriculture, where both private crop insurance and frequent federal disaster assistance are present. We find that bailout …

for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated …

remain small. We estimate the parameters of the model using firm-level data for India and the United States. We study the …

complementarity. This amplification enables our model to nearly fully account for the income gap between India and the US without …

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …