This paper examines the impact of public and private agricultural research and extension on agricultural total factor productivity at the state level. We test the hypothesis that the composition of agricultural experiment station funding—share of funding from impact of federal competitive...

This paper presents new econometric evidence on state government’s demand for resources to support local agricultural experiment station research.  The econometric model consists of a complete-demand system covering four major resource sources, and it is fitted to annual observations on 48...

The impact of public and private research to agricultural productivity in the US between 1950 and 1982 were assessed using an econometric model. Analysis of US aggregate measures of multifactor agricultural productivity was undertaken using imputation-accounting, statistical meta-function and...