Attribution and other problems in assessing the returns to agricultural R&D

By J. Alston, Philip G. Pardey. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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In Economics and Econometrics

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3. V. Manyong
4. K. Davis
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Citations in the corpus

• The economic and poverty impacts of maize research in West and Central Africa. (2009, background): “Finally, given the very long, or even infinite, lag between research investments and reaping the full benefits (Alston and Pardey, 2001), our analysis that links the stream of past investments (1971–2005) to a finite stream of benefits (1981–2005) is bound to understate the true benefits.”
• Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in East Africa (2012, background): “…(the predicted outcome in the absence of the intervention—i.e., what would have happened to the participants had they not participated in the FFS); (b) attributing the impact to an intervention; and (c) coping with long and unpredictable lag times (Alston and Pardey 2001; Salter and Martin 2001).”
• Do Formula or Competitive Grant Funds Have Greater Impacts on State Agricultural Productivity (2006, unknown): “Prior studies of public agricultural research and extension impacts on state or regional agricultural productivity include Griliches (1963); Huffman and Evenson (1993); Alston, Craig, and Pardey (1998); Alston and Pardey (2001); and Yee et al.”
• Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models : exploring the costs and benefits. JISC EI-ASPM Project. A report to the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) (2009, background): “Various approaches have been adopted to deal with this attribution problem, including introducing control variables for non-research factors into the equations used to estimate returns to R&D (Alston and Pardy 2001).”
• What Determines Public Expenditure Allocations? A Review of Theories, and Implications for Agricultural Public Investment (2012, background): “However, for readers interested in the challenges that long lag times impose on analytical attribution of agricultural research and development investments, see Alston and Pardey (2001).”
• Agroforestry and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (2004, background): “Alston and Pardey (2001) tabulated the rates of return to various types of agricultural research and development from thousands of studies.”