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The Impact of CO2 Emission Cuts on Income

Zhao, Xiaobing - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The importance of this question is manifested in the disagreements at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United...

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Substitution Elasticities between GHG Polluting and Non-polluting Inputs in Agricultural Production: A Meta-Regression

Liu, Boying; Shumway, C. Richard - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

This paper reports meta-regressions of substitution elasticities between greenhouse-gas (GHG) polluting and nonpolluting inputs in agricultural production. We treat energy, fertilizer, and manure collectively as the “polluting input” and labor, land, and capital as nonpolluting inputs. We...

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Increasing Canada's International Competitiveness: Is There a Link between Skilled Immigrants and Innovation?

Partridge, Jamie; Furtan, William Hartley - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008

We use an augmented national ideas production function to examine skilled immigrants' impact on Canadian innovation at the provincial level. Empirically, this model was tested using Canadian data by province on innovation flow over an 11 year time period, where innovation flow is defined in...

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Does Subsidizing Fertilizer Increase Yields? Evidence from Malawi

Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Jayne, Thomas S.; Black, J. Roy - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Despite their strain on government and donor budgets, fertilizer subsidies have once again become popular policy tools in several Sub-Saharan Africa countries as a potential way to increase yields in staple crops like maize. Policy makers often assume that farmers who receive the subsidy will...

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Technical Change vs Efficiency Change: Performance of Food Industries over Time

Bontemps, Christophe; Nauges, Celine; Requillart, Vincent; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

This paper proposes an iterative procedure for testing periods of technical progress and periods of technical regress. We apply this methodology to the French food industry.

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Import Penetration, Intermediate Inputs and Firms’ Productivity in the EU Food Industry

Olper, Alessandro; Curzi, Daniele; Raimondi, Valentina - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2015

The aim of this contribution is to study empirically the effect of trade liberalization on productivity growth exploiting a large micro-dataset of more than 20,000 French and Italian food firms, over the 2004-2012 period. This relationship has been studied focusing on import penetration at both...

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Economic Performance of Bt Cotton Varieties in Pakistan

Nazli, Hina; Sarker, Rakhal; Meilke, Karl D.; Orden, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

Farmers in Pakistan have been growing cotton that contains the first generation of Bt gene since 2002. The cultivation … percent of the cotton area was under BT varieties. This paper examines the economic performance of Bt cotton in Pakistan based … improving more than in Bahawalpur. The results are similar to other studies of Bt cotton in India and suggest gains for Pakistan …

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Distribution of Benefits and Adoption of Bt Cotton in Pakistan: Ex-ante Analysis

Nazli, Hina; Sarker, Rakhal; Meilke, Karl D.; Orden, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010

This poster presents the potential impact of Bt cotton adoption in Pakistan. The size and distribution of economic … benefits from the commercial adoption of Bt cotton in Pakistan are examined under four hypothetical scenarios. The adjusted … the total net benefits of adopting Bt cotton in Pakistan are large. As a result of increase in production, farmers get …

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The impact of water users' associations on the productivity of irrigated agriculture in Pakistani Punjab

Mekonnen, Dawit; Channa, Hira; Ringler, Claudia - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

The government of Pakistan has been involved in the transfer of irrigation management to farmers' organizations at … Transfer.The study utilizes the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (Round 1.5) that has detailed plot level information with …

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The role of social networks in an imperfect market for agricultural technology products: Evidence on Bt cotton adoption in Pakistan

Ma, Xingliang; Spielman, David J.; Nazli, Hina; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

insect-resistant Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton in Pakistan represents an example where imperfect markets, weak extension … Pakistan. We model how information from social network members influences farmers’ adoption decisions, controlling for farmers …

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