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Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism
Fiszbein, Martín; Jung, Yeonha; Vollrath, Dietrich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814418
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How Large Are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1997
Costinot, Arnaud - 2016
In this paper we develop a new approach to measuring the gains from economic integration based on a generalization of the Ricardian model in which heterogeneous factors of production are allocated to multiple sectors in multiple local markets based on comparative advantage. We implement this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455734
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510584
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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-grant Universities
Barham, Bradford L. - 2020
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479212
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Alston, Julian M. - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481789
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Economics of research and innovation in agriculture
Moser, Petra (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Research and … - 2021
--Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and …
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Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States
Craig, Lee A. - 1997
We model the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, and height, and we test the hypothesis that adult height is positively correlated with the local production of nutrition in infancy. We test the hypothesis on two samples of Union Army recruits - one consisting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472836
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Internal Net Worth and the Investment Process : An Application to U.S. Agriculture
Hubbard, R. Glenn - 1990
Recent models of firm investment decisions stressing informational imperfections in capital markets provide a foundation for interpreting evidence that movements in internal finance can predict investment opportunities. While such evidence is suggestive, it is often open to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475696
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Does The Samaritan's Dilemma Matter? Evidence From U.S. Agriculture
Deryugina, Tatyana - 2016
.S. agriculture, where both private crop insurance and frequent federal disaster assistance are present. We find that bailout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455835
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Spatial Structural Change
Eckert, Fabian; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Between 1880 and 1920, the US agricultural employment share fell from 50% to 25%. However, despite aggregate demand shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non-agricultural parts of the US. We propose a spatial...
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