作者:Bustos, Paula; Caprettini, Bruno; Ponticelli, Jacopo
作者单位:University of Zurich; University of Chicago
摘要:We study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural transformation. To guide empirical work, we present a simple model where the effect of agricultural productivity on industrial development depends on the factor-bias of technical change. We test the predictions of the model by studying the introduction of genetically engineered soybean seeds in Brazil, which had heterogeneous effects on agricultural productivity across areas with different soil and weather char...
作者:Deaton, Angus
作者单位:Princeton University