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Varying-Parameter Supply Functions and the Sources of Economic Distress in American Agriculture, 1866-1914

Cooley, Thomas F. - 1974

as stemming from the inability of farmers to adapt to changing conditions in world agriculture. This hypothesis is tested …

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Protection and Competitiveness in Egyptian Agriculture and Industry

Hansen, Bent - 1974

This paper contains the basic statistical material upon which Effective Rates of Protection (ERPs), Domestic Resource Costs (DRCs), and crop acreage responses were calculated by the authors for their volume on Egypt in the NBER project Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development. This...

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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,...

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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture

Gollin, Douglas - 2019

Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop yields and input intensities appear to vary greatly, seemingly in conflict with a model of efficient allocation across farms. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework for distinguishing between...

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How Can Inclusive Agricultural Health Policy Intervention Promote Shared Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria? Evidence from Randomized Control Trial

Olowogbon, Toyin Samuel - 2019

We engaged randomized control trial to measure the effects of an agricultural health training intervention among 480 randomly assigned crop farmers from 24 farming communities in Nigeria. Structured questionnaire, interviews and random farm visit were used for data collection. The intervention...

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Business Cycle during Structural Change : Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective

Storesletten, Kjetil - 2019

agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory … simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive … as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in …

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The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires : Human Capital in China

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2019

The practice of burning agricultural waste is ubiquitous around the world, yet the external human capital costs from those fires have been underexplored. Using data from the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) and agricultural fires detected by high-resolution satellites in China during...

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Local Effects of Land Grant Colleges on Agricultural Innovation and Output

Andrews, Michael J. - 2019

To estimate the local effect of establishing land grant colleges, I compare locations that receive a land grant college to "runner-up" counties that were in contention to receive the land grant but did not for as-good-as-random reasons. I find that establishing a land grant college causes an...

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The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change

Nath, Ishan B. - 2020

heat reduces non-agricultural productivity, but less so than in agriculture, implying that hot countries could adapt to … perversely pulls labor into agriculture where its productivity suffers most and reallocation exacerbates the global decline in …

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Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture

Moser, Petra - 2020

evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through …

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