This paper presents an economic perspective on intellectual property in plantmaterials, including its value, and summary information on the U.S. seed industry. It firstconsiders intellectual property rights--types, economic incentives that they bestow, and usesacross developed and developing...

This paper describes major external changes to the U.S. public agricultural researchsystem over 1988-1999; describes the reactions of the public agricultural research system to theexternal changes, specifying the innovations that have occurred over the last decade; and drawsconclusions about the present...

This paper presents a twoequationmodel of joint outcomes on an individual’sdecision to binge drink and on his/her annual labor market earnings. The primary data source isthe 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), 19791994.We showthat binge drinking behavior is quite...

In most environments, information is critical to consumer's decision making. Consumers have prior beliefs about quality and price of goods and services and obtain new information which is used to update these prior beliefs or to form posterior beliefs, i.e., Bayesian learning. New food products...

This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to economic growth and development over time and across countries. Particular attention is paid to the roles of improvements in agricultural technology and of the human capital of...

This paper applies production theory to define a new set of inputs for U.S. households for thepost-war II period, tests the new inputs to see if they support a complete household-demandsystem, and reports a new social cost-of-living index. The data support a demand system withnine major input...

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

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...

This paper examines immigration trends and economic impacts of immigration on the Midwestover the 1990s, especially for rural and agricultural labor markets and places them in contextrelative to changes in California, Florida, and Texas and the whole United States. The 1990swas a period of rapid...

This paper addressed the puzzling resistance of Presidents of southern African countries to food aid in 2002, given near certain starvation and long-term negative health effects of malnutrition of their constituents. First, I show that NGOs led by Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are...