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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...
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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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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 …
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--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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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...
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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...
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.S. agriculture, where both private crop insurance and frequent federal disaster assistance are present. We find that bailout …
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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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for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated …
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This paper highlights the role of agriculture in the American economy and society over time and points to farmer …
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