Accounting for the impact of local and spill-in public research, extension and roads on us regional agricultural productivity, 1980-2004

Productivity growth in Agriculture: An International Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 13-30

  Wang, Sun Ling ^a   Ball, V Eldon ^a   Fulginiti, Lilyan E ^b   Plastina, Alejandro ^c  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c International Cotton Advisory Committee   (United States)

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