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 …

.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 …

The objective of this paper is to review likely trends in key drivers of productivity with a view to suggesting the … rate of productivity growth that is likely to be required to maintain the competitiveness of Australian agriculture both … for achieving this level of productivity performance over the period to 2030.Growth in agricultural productivity has …

productivity of basic and applied research and education in this field, I construct a structural model composed of a system of …

Investment in R&D has long been regarded as an important source of productivity growth in New Zealand and Australian … public investment in R&D and in productivity growth are reviewed. Investment in R&D has been flat in both countries although … significantly higher than that in New Zealand. Productivity growth is also likely to have been higher. Econometric evidence about …

Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation …