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Subsidies and the African Green Revolution : Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique
Carter, Michael - 2019
-Saharan Africa. We study the first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) in Africa. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480152
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Alston, Julian M. - 2020
changing technological regulations--let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481789
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Growing by Leaps and Inches : Creative Destruction, Real Cost Reduction, and Inching Up
Darby, Michael R. - 2002
breakthroughs (e.g., biotechnology, lasers, semiconductors, nanotechnology). Unless congruent with incumbents' science and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469767
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Present at the Revolution : Transformation of Technical Identity for a Large Incumbent Pharmaceutical Firm After the Biotechnological Breakthrough
Zucker, Lynne G. - 1995
profound, biotechnology applications in this large incumbent firm are more likely to be combined with other techno- logies than … in the new biotechnology firms (NBFs) which use biotechnology for both discovery and production of new therapeutic … more effective applications of the new technologies, but it could retard full adoption of biotechnology. It appears that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473634
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Can Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?
Beaman, Lori - 2018
In order to induce farmers to adopt a productive new agricultural technology, we apply simple and complex contagion diffusion models on rich social network data from 200 villages in Malawi to identify seed farmers to target and train on the new technology. A randomized controlled trial compares...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480567
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Hog Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy : Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960
Olmstead, Alan L. - 2003
quality of the crop increased significantly. This paper analyzes the key institutional and scientific developments that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469085
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Two Blades of Grass : The Impact of the Green Revolution
Gollin, Douglas - 2018
We examine the economic impact of high-yielding crop varieties (HYVs) in developing countries 1960-2000. We use time … effect is fully accounted for by the direct effect on crop yields, factor adjustment, and structural transformation. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452976
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South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809
Mancall, Peter C. - 2000
Based on data from several samples of probate inventories we construct and analyze a time series of slave prices for South Carolina from 1722 to 1809. These estimates reveal that prices fluctuated without trend prior to the 1760s and then began to rise rapidly, more than doubling by the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471200
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Slave Prices in the Lower South, 1722-1815
Mancall, Peter C. - 2000
Using data from samples of probate inventories we construct a series of slave prices for Low Country South Carolina and Georgia covering the period 1722-1815. Using these data we examine variations in slave prices by age and sex, as well as geographic variations between and within the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471326
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Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand
Cai, Jing - 2016
Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately zero take-up rate at market price. This has led governments and donors to provide subsidies to increase take-up, with the concern of trying to limit their cost. In this study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455978