The paper examines growth in the U.S. agricultural sector under the conditions hypothesized by endogenous growth theory. Public capital and R&D in agriculture are explicitly considered to capture the effect of public inputs. Results support some of the necessary conditions for this hypothesis to...

This paper specifies an empirical model of the relative decline of the agricultural sector consistent with the neoclassical explanation. We utilize a production theory approach to analyze the effect of changes in relative prices, relative factor endowments and technical change on the share of...