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Subsidies and the Persistence of Technology Adoption : Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
Carter, Michael - 2015
We report the results of a randomized experiment testing impacts of subsidies for modern agricultural inputs in rural Mozambique. One-time provision of a voucher for fertilizer and improved seeds leads to substantial increases in fertilizer use, which persist through two subsequent agricultural...
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124538
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When the Levee Breaks : Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South
Hornbeck, Richard - 2012
In the American South, post-bellum economic stagnation has been partially attributed to white landowners' access to low-wage black labor; indeed, Southern economic convergence from 1940 to 1970 was associated with substantial black out-migration. This paper examines the impact of the Great...
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022
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 are much larger and more specialized, supplying a...
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From Learning to Doing : Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Guinea-Bissau
Martins Caeiro, Rute - 2022
This paper analyzes the role of social networks in the diffusion of knowledge and adoption of cultivation techniques, from trainees to the wider community, in the context of an extension project in Guinea-Bissau. In order to test for social learning, we exploit a detailed census of households...
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Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture
Moser, Petra - 2021
Feeding the world’s growing population is one of the most critical policy challenges for the 21st century. With … promising path meet the nutrient needs for future generations. At the same time, the increasing variability in the world …, there is an active discussion on the returns to public and private spending in agricultural R&D, and many of the world …
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The Red Queen and the Hard Reds : Productivity Growth in American Wheat, 1800-1940
Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. - 2021
The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively the result of mechanization rather than biological innovations. This paper shows that, to the contrary, U.S. wheat production witnessed a biological revolution during the 19th...
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Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity : The Role of Mobile Phones in Agriculture
Gupta, Apoorv; Ponticelli, Jacopo; Tesei, Andrea - 2022
We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy exploits the expansion of the mobile phone network in previously uncovered areas of rural India coupled with the availability of call centers for agricultural advice. We measure...
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Conveying Quality and Value in Emerging Industries : Star Scientists and the Role of Learning in Biotechnology
Higgins, Matthew John - 2015
. Here we explore the importance within the biotechnology industry of the non-financial metrics firms used to convey value … was a change over time in the importance of various metrics in determining the value of a biotechnology firm. We find that … value. Our results also suggest that the biotechnology regime changed and the Nobel Prize lost its luster as a signal of …
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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the Sbir Program
Toole, Andrew A. - 2015
This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic entrepreneurship. We highlight two main characteristics of the program that make it attractive as an entrepreneurship policy: early-stage financing and scientist involvement in...
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