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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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evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through …
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country to country depending on which perquisites were present or absent. In the past twenty years, Brazilian agriculture … is in the worlds' top five producers of coffee, soybeans, oranges, beef and corn. Yet, some segments of agriculture lag …
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. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …
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During the 1850s, land in U.S. farms surged by more than 100 million acres while almost 50 million acres of land were transformed from their raw, natural state into productive farmland. The time and expense of transforming this land into a productive resource represented a significant fraction...
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for agricul-ture. We apply this model to U.S. data for the period 1960-1999. Ongoing work focuses on updating the data set …
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agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural …
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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 … the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …
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This paper discusses a portion of our work linking data on the agriculture sector in the United States and Canada. The …
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redistributed farm lands. We study this reform in the context of an industry model of agriculture with a non-degenerate distribution …
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