RESEARCH, PRODUCTIVITY, AND OUTPUT GROWTH IN U.S. AGRICULTURE

Policies and Productivity Growth in African Agriculture

Structural and productivity change in US agriculture , 1950 – 1982

This paper tests whether structural change in US agriculture is an important channel to TFP growth and evaluates the relative impact of (i) public research and education policies, (ii) private R&D and market forces, and (iii) government farm programs on structural change. We specify a structural econometric model, fit it to US state aggregate data, 1953–1982, and use the associated reduced-form...

Output, Input, and Productivity Measurement in U.S. Agriculture, 1948-79

Tornqvist-Theil indexes of outputs and inputs are constructed. These data are used to construct indexes of productivity growth over the postwar period. The productivity indexes can be derived from a flexible multioutput-multifactor representation of the structure of production constrained to constant returns to scale. Total factor productivity grew at an average annual rate of 1.75%, compared w...

Essays on productivity growth in agriculture

Baldos, Uris Lantz Caldo. Ph.D. Purdue University, December 2014. Essays on Productivity Growth in Agriculture. Major Professor: Dr. Thomas W. Hertel This dissertation aims to explore the current trends in agricultural productivity and analyse its impact on the global farm and food system. Chapter 2 in this dissertation looks at the current trends in agricultural productivity in India – one mos...

Efficiency, Productivity and Output Growth: An Inter- Regional Analysis of Greek Agriculture

V. Tzouvelekas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Welsh Institute of Rural Studies, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. K. Giannakas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan. G. Karagiannis is a Senior Researcher with the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Athens, Greece. Senior authorship is shared. Please direct corresponden...