, and animal power, government subsidies encouraged the use of fertilizer and machines. Since productivity growth arises … from technical change, Brazil's drive to modernize its agricultural sector should improve agricultural productivity …. However, inefficient production practices arising from subsidies can slow multifactor productivity growth. Recent removal of …

and partial factor productivity measures across time and region for a sample of representative u.s. cotton enterprises …. Total factor productivity for u.s. cotton increased only .2% per year between 1974 and 1982 compared to a much higher post …-World-War-II growth rate of about 5%. Partial productivity measures revealed that yield growth was about .6% per year, while total input …

average adoption effect on participants by testing for productivity difference between adopters and non-adopters. Secondly, we … the yield differences, which in both cases are substantial. There is some evidence for greater productivity of the smaller …

Labor productivity is measured for each of 4 selected years for each of four components of personal consumption … commercial employees, and food produced and consumed on farms. The labor productivity estimates include both direct and …

The total factor productivity index for u.s. wheat was 1.5% per year between 1974 and 1983. The conservation tillage … productivity index for u.s. wheat was about 1.1% per year during this time period, or about 75% of the T.F.P. North Dakota and …

This paper examines the impact that publicly funded agricultural research has on productivity in crop production within … production is a significant determinant of total factor productivity (TFP) in the crop sector and, second, that its social rate …

.S. agricultural productivity growth. Local and social internal rates of return are estimated accounting for the effects of R&D spill …

This paper analyzes incentive and capacity factors that explain variations in research productivity among 344 … factors in explaining productivity. Reported job satisfaction and reported staff’s happiness or satisfaction on organizational …