Scientists and economists are increasingly worried that biofuels production is leading to land use changes in the form of competition with food crops or loss of natural ecosystems. I estimate acreage conversion in response to shocks in sugarcane (a biofuels feedstock) and soybean (thought to be...

Estimating farmers’ supply responses to changes in framework conditions is important to inform decision-makers on the expected impacts on production volume as well as the resulting land-use shifts. Existing agricultural supply response models generally require either larger databases with...

Die Schätzung der Angebotsreaktionen von Landwirten auf veränderte Rahmenbedingungen ist wichtig, um Entscheidungsträger über die erwarteten Auswirkungen einer Maßnahme auf das Produktionsvolumen und die daraus resultierenden Landnutzungsänderungen zu informieren. Bestehende Modelle für...

We study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. To guide empirical work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development depends on the factor bias of technical change. We test the predictions...