Agricultural productivity : measurement and sources of growth

Contributing Authors. Acknowledgments. Foreword by Dale W. Jorgenson. Introduction. 1. Introduction and Overview V.E. Ball, G.W. Norton. Part I: Production Accounts and Productivity of U.S. Agriculture. 2. United States Agriculture, 1960-96: A Multilateral Comparison of Total Factor Productivity V.E. Ball, et al. 3. A Disaggregated Perspective on Post-War Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture: Isn't that Spatial? A.K.A. Acquaye, et al. 4. Transitive Multilateral Comparisons of Agricultural Output, Input, and Productivity: A Nonparametric Approach D.S. Prasada Rao, et al. 5. Productivity Versus Urban Sprawl: Spatial Variations in Land Values C.B. Moss, et al. Part II: Productivity, Efficiency, and the Role of R&D and Infrastructure. 6. Parametric Estimation of Technical and Locative Efficiency in U.S. Agriculture C.J. O'Donnell. 7. Public R&D and Infrastructure Policies: Effects on Cost of Midwestern Agriculture W.E. Huffman, et al. 8. Sources of Agricultural Productivity Growth at the State Level, 1960-1993 J. Yee, et al. Part III: Productivity Growth and the Environment. 9. Environmental Indicators of Pesticide Leaching and Runoff from Farm Fields R.L. Kellogg, et al. 10. The Environmental Performance of the U.S. Agricultural Sector V.E. Ball, et al. 11. The Effect of Ground Water Regulation on Productivity Growth in the Farm Sector K.A. Chaston, F.M. Gollop. 12. Costs of Production and Environmental Risk: Resource-Factor Substitution in U.S. Agriculture V.E. Ball, et al. Discussion.13. The Usefulness of Productivity Measurement R.E. Evenson. Subject Index.