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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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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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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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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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The Diffusion of the Tractor in American Agriculture : 1910-60

Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. - 2021

This paper examines the impact and diffusion of the gasoline tractor in American agriculture. A key feature of the transition from horses to tractors was a long intermediate stage when both modes of power were used on the same farm. This is largely explained in the technical limitations of early...

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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough

Alesina, Alberto - 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...

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