Articles
The Economic Returns to U.S. Public Agricultural Research (with Julian M. Alston, Matthew A. Anderson, and Phillip G. Pardey), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2011)
We use newly constructed state-specific data to explore the implications of common modeling choices for...
Setting Agricultural Science Strategy in Tumultuous Economic Times (with Julian M. Alston and Philip G. Pardey), California Agriculture (2009)
The international competitiveness and prosperity of U.S. agriculture depends on steady and rapid productivity growth...
Structural Changes in U.S. Agricultural Production and Productivity (with Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey, and Matthew A. Andersen), Choices Magazine (2009)
The structure of U.S. agricultural production changed dramatically during the 20th Century. Major technological innovations...
The Economics of Agricultural R&D (with Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey, and Matthew A. Andersen), The Annual Review of Resource Economics (2009)
Agricultural research has transformed agriculture and in doing so contributed to the transformation of economies....
Agricultural R&D Policy: A Tragedy of the International Commons (with Philip G. Pardey and Julian M. Alston), University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics: Staff Paper Series (2008)
Over the past 50 years public agricultural research has contributed enormously to humanity, enabling the...
Contributions to Books
The Incidence of Agricultural Policy (with Julian M. Alston), Handbook of Agricultural Economics (2002)
This chapter first discusses what economists mean by "the incidence of agricultural policy" and why...