Agricultural Productivity

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.