A comparison of multifactor productivity calculations of the U.S. agricultural sector

Abstract

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Indicators of natural resource scarcity: review, synthesis, and application to US agriculture

“…However, the overall decline in GUC shows that technical change has augmented other factors faster than pesticide effectiveness has fallen, land quality has fallen, and harvested land area has declined (see next section). This result is consistent with previous productivity work which finds a significant and positive rate of input-augmenting technical change (Trueblood and Ruttan, 1995). The mean rainfall elasticity represents a problem with the model as this would not expected to be negative.…”

“…Crosson (1995) finds that the on-farm costs of degradation over the next 100 years are small. Every analysis of multi-and total factor productivity in the US shows a substantial overall increase since the 1940s (Trueblood and Ruttan, 1995), suggesting that the US agricultural resource base has not undergone pervasive, irreversible, long-term damage, and/or that technical change and factor substitution have more than offset any effects of degradation (Ball et al, 1995). These conclusions are buoyed by the 24% decline in sheet and rill erosion in the US from 1982(USDA, 1994.…”

Agricultural productivity in developing countries

“…There is a substantial body of literature measuring multifactor agricultural productivity in the US (Ball, 1985;Jorgenson et &1., 1987;Capalbo, 1988;Chavas and Cox, 1990;Burea et al, 1995;Trueblood and Ruttan, 1995). On the other hand, so far as we are aware, the only studies of multifactor agricultural productivity in LDCs are the ones by , Kawagoe et al (1985), Lau and Yotopoulos (1989) and Kawagoe and Hayami (1985).…”

Agricultural productivity in developing countries

“…There is a substantial body of literature measuring multifactor agricultural productivity in the US (Ball, 1985;Jorgenson et al, 1987;Capalbo, 1988;Chavas and Cox, 1990;Burea et al, 1995;Trueblood and Ruttan, 1995). On the other hand, so far as we are aware, the only studies of multifactor agricultural productivity in LDCs are the ones by , , Lau and Yotopoulos (1989) and .…”