Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 522
Cover Image
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/10012863691
Cover Image
Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022
changing technological regulations—let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and livestock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322662
Cover Image
Present at the Revolution : Transformation of Technical Identity for a Large Incumbent Pharmaceutical Firm after the Biotechnological Breakthrough
Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R. - 2021
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/10013230595
Cover Image
Growing by Leaps and Inches : Creative Destruction, Real Cost Reduction, and Inching Up
Darby, Michael R.; Zucker, Lynne G. - 2021
breakthroughs (e.g., biotechnology, lasers, semiconductors, nanotechnology). Unless congruent with incumbents' science and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311623
Cover Image
Can Network Theory-Based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?
Beaman, Lori A. - 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/10012912403
Cover Image
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/10012916176
Cover Image
Hog Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy : Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960
Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. - 2022
quality of the crop increased significantly. This paper analyzes the key institutional and scientific developments that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324590
Cover Image
Profitability of Fertilizer : Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali
Beaman, Lori A. - 2013
In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor. This highlights that farmers respond to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087062
Cover Image
The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
Levine, David I. - 2014
We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in combination with government administrative data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050300
Cover Image
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/10012982016