the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations—let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and livestock …

The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively …. Our revised estimates of Parker and Klein's productivity calculations indicate that biological innovations account for … roughly one-half of labor productivity growth between 1839 and 1909 …

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 ….5 million phone calls made by farmers to one of India's leading call centers for agricultural advice. We find that areas …

deeper division of labor among these teams which leads to an increase in firm productivity. The paper can be thought of as a …

In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the …

productivity in the South and aggregate technology used by the South both turn out to be higher …