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Agricultural productivity and producer behavior / edited by Wolfram Schlenker.
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English
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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ix, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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S494.5.P75 A373 2019
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Agricultural productivity
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United States
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Agricultural subsidies
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Schlenker, Wolfram
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National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
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"Agriculture plays a key role in economic growth and development. As recently as 1800, more than half the population in most European countries worked on farms and in fields, though this shifted with the industrial revolution. Agricultural efficiencies were not immediately apparent until the middle of the 20th century when yields began to increase and they have continued to grow at a steady pace since. At the same time, inflation-adjusted agricultural commodity prices have been trending downward as increases in supply outpaced increases in demand. Food is an essential good, and while its price is currently low due to its abundance, it is responsible for a large consumer surplus given the highly inelastic demand. Understanding the factors that contribute to the upward trend in yields is of first-order importance for food security and human welfare. This book contains eight chapters that examine the factors behind the remarkably steady increase in yields around the globe, in order to better understand whether this trend can continue into the future and whether it will impose significant environmental externalities. The volume provides fresh and original analyses using methodological innovations to analyze recently available micro-level data sets"-- Provided by publisher.
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Contents
Heterogeneous yield impacts from adoption of genetically engineered corn and the importance of controlling for weather / Jayson L. Lusk, Jesse Tack, and Nathan P. Hendricks
Impacts of climate change and extreme weather on US agricultural productivity: evidence and projection / Sun Ling Wang, Eldon Ball, Richard Nehring, Ryan Williams, and Truong Chau
Farming under weather risk: adaptation, moral hazard, and selection on moral hazard / Hsing-Hsiang Huang and Michael R. Moore
Intranational trade costs, reallocation, and technical change: evidence from a Canadian agricultural trade policy reform / Mark Brown, Shon M. Ferguson, and Crina Viju-Miljusevic
Electricity prices, groundwater, and agriculture: the environmental and agricultural impacts of electricity subsidies in India / Reena Badiani-Magnusson and Katrina Jessoe
Estimating the impact of crop diversity on agricultural productivity in South Africa / Cecilia Bellora, Élodie Blanc, Jean-Marc Bourgeon, and Eric Strobl
Crop disease and agricultural productivity: evidence from a dynamic structural model of verticillium wilt management / Christine L. Carroll, Colin A. Carter, Rachael E. Goodhue, and C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell
Willingness to pay for low water footprint foods during drought / Hannah Krovetz, Rebecca Taylor, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas.
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ISBN
9780226619804 ((cloth))
022661980X
LCCN
2019024315
OCLC
1089900382
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