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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Alston, Julian M. - 2020
the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …
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Education and Innovation : The Long Shadow of the Cultural Revolution
Huang, Zhangkai - 2020
The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when colleges and universities were closed from 1966-1976. We examine the human capital cost of this loss of education on subsequent innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms...
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461940
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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008
Shen, Keting - 2015
Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …
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China's “Great Leap Forward” in Science and Engineering
Freeman, Richard B. - 2015
In the past two decades China leaped from bit player in global science and engineering (S&E) to become the world … latecomer to modern science and engineering, China trailed the US and other advanced countries in the quality of its … universities and research but was improving both through the mid-2010s. This paper presents evidence that China's leap benefited …
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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power : Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects
Tang, Tian - 2014
since 2002. Using pooled cross-sectional data of 486 registered CDM wind projects in China from 2002 to 2009, we examine the … manufacturers in China's wind power industry …
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Mechanizing Agriculture
Caunedo, Julieta; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Economic activity in developing countries is labor-intensive, low-scale, and family run, with substantial family managerial time spent supervising hired labor. We use a randomized control trial that subsidizes access to rental equipment markets to study the impact of the adoption of mechanized...
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Harvesting the Rain : The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel
Aker, Jenny C.; Jack, B. Kelsey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many agricultural and environmental technologies require large upfront investments in exchange for longer-term benefits. This time profile of costs and benefits makes adoption particularly sensitive to liquidity and credit constraints, which are prevalent in low-income settings. We test the...
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Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism
Fiszbein, Martín; Jung, Yeonha; Vollrath, Dietrich - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900. To address endogeneity we exploit climate-induced...
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From Learning to Doing : Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Guinea-Bissau
Caeiro, Rute Martins - 2019
This paper analyzes the role of social networks in the diffusion of knowledge and adoption of cultivation techniques, from trainees to the wider community, in the context of an extension project in Guinea-Bissau. In order to test for social learning, we exploit a detailed census of households...
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