We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … exploits the expansion of the mobile phone network in previously uncovered areas of rural India coupled with the availability ….5 million phone calls made by farmers to one of India's leading call centers for agricultural advice. We find that areas …

the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U … innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations--let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and …

The standard treatment of U.S. agriculture asserts that, before the 1930s, productivity growth was almost exclusively …. Our revised estimates of Parker and Klein's productivity calculations indicate that biological innovations account for … roughly one-half of labor productivity growth between 1839 and 1909 …

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the … agricultural productivity? We develop a model of heterogeneous farms making cropping choices and investing in productivity … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

markets to study the impact of the adoption of mechanized practices on labor demand, productivity and managerial span of …

frontier production function framework is used to assess the relative productivity of 113 university TTOs. Our field research … variation in TTO efficiency. Relative productivity may also depend on organizational practices in university management of …

-level productivity evolution and the equilibrium market configuration. A counterfactual experiment reveals that a 15% R&D subsidy …

productivity in the South and aggregate technology used by the South both turn out to be higher …