. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

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 … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and …

estimates. This paper incorporates climate uncertainty into estimates of climate change impacts on U.S. agriculture. Accounting … interval featuring drops of between 17% to 88%. An application to African agriculture yields similar results …

The livelihoods of the majority of the world's poor depend on agriculture. They face substantial risk from fluctuations … in weather conditions. Better risk, credit and savings markets can improve productivity and welfare in rural areas but … seasonal forecasts of monsoon weather. We find that in areas where the forecast is accurate (has “skill”) that investment …

the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting …

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 …