Research returns redux: a meta-analysis of the returns to agricultural R&D

By J. Alston, M. Marra, Philip G. Pardey, T. J. Wyatt. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research

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Economics and adoption of conservation biological control (2008, background): “There is extensive literature in economics, particularly agricultural economics, on the returns from research and development (R&D) (Alston et al., 2000; Marshall and Brennan, 2001).”
Analyzing technology adoption using microstudies: limitations, challenges, and opportunities for improvement (2006, methodology): “Alston et al. (2000) conducted a meta-analysis of returns to agricultural R&D.”
Building a Sustainable and Desirable Economy-in-Society-in-Nature (2013, background): “A meta-study of returns to research and development, typically conducted by the public sector, found average annual rates of return of 80% [53].”
The Impacts of Public Investment in and for Agriculture: Synthesis of the Existing Evidence (2012, background): “For example, in work focused on agricultural growth and rural development in a northern Indian state (Himachal Pradesh), Baba et al. (2010) found a positive and highly significant effect of public-sector investment in agriculture on private-sector investments in agriculture for 1969–2002.”
Technical efficiency in farming: a meta-regression analysis (2007, methodology): “…analysis is a quantitative method used to evaluate the effect of methodological and other study-specific characteristics on published empirical estimates of some indicator, TE in our case, using differences across these studies as explanatory vari- ables in a regression model (Alston et al. 2000).”