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Julian Alston

Distinguished Professor emeritus, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics …
Verified email at ucdavis.edu
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The incidence of agricultural policy

JM Alston, JS James - Handbook of agricultural economics, 2002 - Elsevier
This chapter first discusses what economists mean by “the incidence of agricultural policy”
and why we care about it. Then it reviews models of the determinants of the differential …

Making science pay: The economics of agricultural R&D policy

JM Alston, PG Pardey - 1996 - books.google.com
… Julian Alston and Philip Pardey have provided a major study of public science policy in …
Alston and Pardey review this long history and the current state of policy. They show that, …

[BOOK][B] Science under scarcity: Principles and practice for agricultural research evaluation and priority setting

JM Alston, GW Norton, PG Pardey - 1995 - cgspace.cgiar.org
… The correct citation for this article is: Alston, Julian M.; Norton, George, W.; and Pardey,
Philip G. 1995. … This volume by Alston, Norton and Pardey is the culmination of both the rate …

[PDF][PDF] Demand for food in the United States: A review of literature, evaluation of previous estimates, and presentation of new estimates of demand

AM Okrent, JM Alston - 2011 - ageconsearch.umn.edu
Many findings and policy recommendations in the academic literature are influenced by
published estimates of elasticities of demand for food. How ever, the quality of these estimates is …

Elasticities in AIDS models

R Green, JM Alston - American journal of agricultural …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
Alston are a professor and an assistant professor, respectively, Department of Agricultural
Economics, University of California, Davis. Senior authorship is not assigned. Giannini …

[BOOK][B] A meta-analysis of rates of return to agricultural R&D: Ex pede Herculem?

JM Alston, C Chan-Kang, MC Marra, PG Pardey… - 2000 - books.google.com
Alston, Craig, and Pardey laid out a model in which current production depends on the
utilization of a stock of useful knowledge, which is itself a function of the entire history of …

Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run

JM Alston, JM Beddow, PG Pardey - Science, 2009 - science.org
In a recent update of earlier estimates ( 1 ), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of
the United Nations reported that more than one billion people now suffer malnutrition ( 2 ). …

Persistence Pays: US Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R & D Spending

JM Alston, MA Andersen, JS James, PG Pardey - 2010 - Springer
Alston, Andersen, James, and Pardey rectify this deficiency with a brilliant book that
represents a major contribution to our understanding of technological change—this is the …

Agriculture in the global economy

JM Alston, PG Pardey - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014 - aeaweb.org
… 8 These represent an updated version of the data we used in Alston, Andersen, James,
and Pardey (2010). Details on data sources and methods used to compute the indices can be …

Research returns redux: a meta‐analysis of the returns to agricultural R&D

JM Alston, MC Marra, PG Pardey… - Australian Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
A total of 289 studies of returns to agricultural R&D were compiled and these provide 1821
estimates of rates of return. After removing statistical outliers and incomplete observations, …