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Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption

Suri, Tavneet - 2015

This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in technology adoption for developing countries: the low adoption rates of technologies like hybrid maize that increase average farm profits dramatically. I offer a simple explanation for this: benefits and costs of technologies are heterogeneous, so...

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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture

Andersen, Matt A.; Pardey, Philip G. - 2022

the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …

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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008

Shen, Keting - 2015

's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …

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Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya

Bird, Samuel S.; Carter, Michael R.; Lybbert, Travis J.; … - 2022

This paper explores the idea that competitive seed systems may underserve farmers in small, agro-ecological niches … and supply factors that can result in such an equilibrium. We then empirically study the disruption of the maize seed … allowed a local seed company to expand and target the area with adaptively-bred maize varieties. A three-year RCT reveals that …

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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,...

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Profitability of Fertilizer : Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Beaman, Lori - 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...

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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...

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Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition : Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology

Conley, Dalton - 2014

malaria transmission and in agricultural productivity through the staggered introduction of Green Revolution, high-yield seed …

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Agricultural Innovation

Wright, Brian D. - 2015

The achievements in agricultural innovation over the past century have been impressive, supporting large increases in agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a decentralized and competitive research system in the...

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Subsidies and the Persistence of Technology Adoption : Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique

Carter, Michael R. - 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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