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agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a … decentralized and competitive research system in the US. Recent intellectual property reforms motivated increased private investment …. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …
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aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …
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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 … yielded very favorable returns: median reported benefit-cost ratios in the range of 12:1. Sustained U.S. investment and …
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. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …
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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 research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in …). Accounting for individual fixed effects leads to much smaller estimated productivity gains from moving into the nonagricultural … fixed effects are included. Estimated productivity gaps do not emerge up to five years after a move between sectors. We …
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Why do developing countries fail to specialize in products in which they appear to have a comparative advantage? We propose a model of agricultural trade with intermediation that explains how hold-up resulting from poor contracting environments can produce such an outcome. We use the model to...
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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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-driven productivity changes on water quality in the Gulf of Mexico using an integrated hydro-economic agricultural land use (IHEAL) model …
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Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags far behind all other regions of the world. A long list of … program aims to relax multiple constraints to productivity simultaneously. We show that participation causes statistically and …
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