Huffman, W.E. and O. Alfranca. ﾓPrivate R&D Investments in Agriculture: The Role of Incentives, Public Policies, and Institutions,ﾔ Econ. Dev. & Cult. Change forthcoming.

Hypotheses about state agricultural experiment stations are investigated. Formula funding is found more productive than competitive-grant funding, possibly owing to transactions costs of reviewing and misallocations of pork barrel funding. Heavier administrator involvement in problem choice is...

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This paper provides an updated assessment of the changing demand for farm labor, including its components and relative use, as reflected in the capital-labor ratios for California and Florida, which are major coastal producers of fresh fruits and vegetables, and of Iowa and Texas, which are two...

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Controversy surrounds the introduction of genetically modified foods. One key issue relates to tolerance levelsï¾—the impurity rate tolerated before a commodity must be labeled. Currently, the United States has not defined a tolerance level for genetically modified foods. This paper uses...

In this paper we fit stochastic frontier production functions to data for Chinese farms grouped into each of four regions

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