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This work seeks to answer the "population question," i.e. the effect of population growth on production per capita. This question has lingered in economic thought for centuries and to this day two general lines of thought can be identified, which might be marked as the "optimist" and the...

This study summarizes key economic results from 10 different no-till (NT) crop rotations and two conventional tillage (CT) corn-soybean rotations based on agronomic data (2001 – 2012) from a long-term crop rotation experiment conducted by the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory...

Using a standard production model, we demonstrate theoretically that, even if labor is fully flexible, it generates a form of operating leverage if (a) wages are smoother than productivity and (b) the capital-labor elasticity of substitution is strictly less than one. Our model supports using...