evidence on the forces that drive research and innovation in agriculture. This book aims to provides such evidence through … economic analyses of the sources of agricultural innovation, the challenges of measuring productivity, the role of universities …

productivity. Competing models yield opposite predictions depending on whether the unobservable productivity is safety …-related skill or productivity generally. Using five panel waves and several new measures of worker fatality risks, first …

. Combining these expressions with publicly available data on salary, job titles, department affiliation, research productivity … preferences for unionization at research universities. We find that faculty with higher pay and greater research productivity are … accounting for pay and productivity, faculty in fields documented elsewhere to have more politically liberal participants are …

attempt to raise their productivity to the level required to gain employment. Second, employers faced with an inability to …

This paper presents new evidence on research and teaching productivity in universities using a panel of 102 top U … researchers. Productivity growth per researcher is 1.4-6.7 percent and is higher in private universities. Productivity growth per … teacher is 0.8-1.1 percent and is higher in public universities. Growth in research productivity within universities exceeds …

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 …