Allocations of research funds across programs are often made for efficiency reasons. Social science research is shown … are simultaneously taken into account. Farm management and marketing research variables are used to explain variations in … research impacts in a way that is less restrictive than popular polynomial distributed lags. Results are reported in terms of …

This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries … for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the … United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative productivity at 0.759.By 1993, the range of levels of productivity had …

This paper starts with the basic premise: that conventional measures of productivity growth - - -often used as a … productivity growth measure using activity analysis which integrates the externality/social output into a generalized productivity … productivity are biased upward when production of negative externalities (or bad) outputs is increasing. Conversely, this same …