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Inappropriate Technology : Evidence from Global Agriculture

Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

An influential explanation for global productivity differences is that frontier technologies are adapted to the high-income countries that develop them and "inappropriate" elsewhere. We study this hypothesis in agriculture using data on novel plant varieties, patents, output, and the global...

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Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption

Suri, Tavneet - 2009

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

Alston, Julian Mark - 2020

the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U …

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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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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. - 2020

This paper explores the idea that a competitive seed system may systematically underserve farmers in small, agro … an under-serviced equilibrium. To study the empirical veracity of this model, we study the disruption of the maize seed … capital allowed a local seed company to expand and target a niche agro-ecological zone with adaptively-bred maize varieties. A …

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Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture

Boucher, Stephen; Carter, Michael R.; Flatnes, Jon Einar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Risk often inhibits on-farm investment by smallholder farmers. Recent evidence indicates that index insurance and stress tolerant seeds can separately and partially offset this risk effect. In this study, we explore whether the complementarities between these two risk management technologies can...

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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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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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Profitability of Fertilizer : Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Beaman, Lori A. - 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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