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The Red Queen and the Hard Reds : Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940
Olmstead, Alan L. - 2002
The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively the result of mechanization rather than biological innovations. This paper shows that, to the contrary, U.S. wheat production witnessed a biological revolution during the 19th...
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Agro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks
Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2016
This paper investigates the nonlinear dynamic response to shocks, relying on a threshold quantile autoregression (TQAR) model as a flexible representation of stochastic dynamics. The TQAR model can identify zones of stability/instability and characterize resilience and traps. Resilience means...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456056
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Environmental Drivers of Agricultural Productivity Growth : CO2 Fertilization of US Field Crops
Taylor, Charles A.; Schlenker, Wolfram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We assess the CO<sub>2</sub> fertilization effect on US agriculture using spatially-varying CO<sub>2</sub> data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite covering the majority of US cropland under actual growing conditions. This study complements the many CO<sub>2</sub> enrichment experiments that have found...
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Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth
Bustos, Paula - 2019
The introduction of new technologies in agriculture can foster structural transformation by freeing workers who find occupation in other sectors. The traditional view is that this reallocation of workers towards manufacturing can lead to industrial development. However, when workers moving to...
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Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields
Roberts, Michael J. - 2010
Extreme heat is the single best predictor of corn and soybean yields in the United States. While average yields have …
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Adaptation to Environmental Change : Agriculture and the Unexpected Incidence of the Acid Rain Program
Sanders, Nicholas J.; Barreca, Alan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
airborne sulfate levels and yields for corn and soybean. We estimate crop revenue losses for these two crops around $1 …
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Cover Crops, Drought, Yield and Risk : an Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production
Dong, Fengxia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
on soybean yield and its risk using USDA's 2018 ARMS Phase II Soybean Production Practices and Costs Report and Phase III … Soybean Costs and Returns Report. Incorporating drought occurrence in current year and previous 5 years into our analysis, we … yield and its risk are mixed. Under a drought condition, cover crops reduced soybean yield and increased yield variation …
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Country studies
Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994
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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Guiso, Luigi - 2000
capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and …
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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm
Ichino, Andrea - 1999
The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a number of potential explanations for this fact: different...
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