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productivity gains for hog farms, likely benefiting U.S. consumers in terms of lower pork prices and enhancing the competitive … with productivity-enhancing technologies widespread, the slowdown in hog farm productivity growth after 2004 suggests that … the era of dramatic productivity gains will likely remain unmatched, absent significant technological innovation …
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agricultural productivity. Exploiting exogenous ge- ographic variations in the stability of malaria and using historical … led to approximately one fifth of the farmer agricultural productivity growth in the US. Using historical spatial data on … eradication of malaria in the US on farmer agricultural productivity …
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State crop, livestock, and aggregate agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) data, 1950-82, are examined for …
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agricultural productivity. Exploiting exogenous geographic variations in the stability of malaria and using historical … to approximately one fifth of the farmer agricultural productivity growth in the US. Using historical spatial data on … eradication of malaria in the US on farmer agricultural productivity. …
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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for …
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.S. metropolitan areas. OLS and 2SLS models explaining labor productivity show that spatial structure matters. Polycentricity is … associated with higher labor productivity. This appears to justify suggestions that, compared to relatively monocentric …
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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for …
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This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land by estimating the effect of the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation on agricultural profits. Using long-run climate change predictions from the Hadley 2 Model, the preferred...
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We develop a discrete-choice model of differentiated products for U.S. corn and soybean seed demand to study the welfare impact of genetically engineered (GE) crop varieties. Using a unique dataset spanning the period 1996-2011, we find that the welfare impact of the GE innovation is...
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