Persistence Pays: U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D Spending

By J. Alston, M. Andersen, J. S. James. 2009

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1. J. Alston
2. Philip G. Pardey
3. M. Andersen
4. J. S. James
5. Jason M. Beddow
6. B. Babcock
7. Timothy K. M. Beatty
8. V. Eidman

Citations in the corpus

• The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide (2010, background): “Alston et al. (2010) explore the empirical implications of alternative aggregation methods when analyzing productivity developments in twentieth century U.”
• A Bounds Analysis of World Food Futures: Global Agriculture Through to 2050 (2014, background): “agricultural productivity and production surged, especially in the decades immediately following World War II (Alston et al. 2010), and by 2010, the U.”
• The Economic Returns to U.S. Public Agricultural Research (2011, methodology): “Having conducted a meta-analysis of 292 studies that reported esti­ mates of returns to agricultural R&D, Alston et al. (2000, p. 55, table 12) reported an overall mean internal rate of return for their sam­ ple of 1,852 estimates of 81.3% per annum, with a mode of 40% and a median of 44.3%. After d”