Do formula or competitive grant funds have greater impacts on state agricultural productivity?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 783-798

  Huffman, Wallace E ^a   Evenson, Robert E ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural productivity; Agricultural research funding; Competitive grants; Extension; Formula funding; Hatch funds; Pooled cross section time series model; Productivity analysis; Research; States

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); PRODUCTIVITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 33750067361     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00898.x     Document Type: Article

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