Published Papers Growth and Development "Global Climate Change, the Economy, and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease," with Christian Zimmermann. 2012. Mathematical Population Studies 19:51–62. “Nobody’s Business but My Own: Self Employment and Small Enterprise in Economic Development.” 2008. Journal of Monetary Economics 55(2) 219-33. “The Food Problem and the Evolution of International Income Levels,” with Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson. 2007. Journal of Monetary Economics 54(4): 1230-1255. “Farm Work, Home Work, and International Productivity Differences,” with Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson. 2004. Review of Economic Dynamics 7(4): 827-850. “The Role of Agriculture in Development,” with Stephen Parente and Richard Rogerson. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 92(2) May 2002: 160-164. “Getting Income Shares Right.” Journal of Political Economy 110(2) April 2002: 458-474. (Data, figures, and tables in Excel format)
Economics of Agricultural Research, Science, and Technology “Animal Genetic Resource Trade Flows: Economic Assessment,” with Eric Van Dusen and Harvey Blackburn. 2009. Livestock Science 120: 248-255.“Animal Genetic Resource Trade Flows: The Utilization of Newly Imported Breeds and the Gene Flow of Individual Animals in the United States of America,” with Harvey Blackburn. 2009. Livestock Science 120: 240-247. “Technology Adoption in Intensive Post-Green Revolution Systems,” with Michael Morris and Derek Byerlee. 2005. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Proceedings) 87(5): 1310-1316. “Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960-2000,” with Robert E. Evenson. 2003. Science 300 (2 May): 758-762. “Valuing Animal Genetic Resources: Lessons from Plant Genetic Resources,” with Robert E. Evenson. 2003. Ecological Economics 45: 353-363. “Searching an Ex Situ Collection of Wheat Genetic Resources,” with Melinda Smale and Bent Skovmand. 2000. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(4): 812-827. "Genetic
Resources, International Organizations, and Improvement in Rice Varieties,"
with Robert E. Evenson. 1997. Economic Development and Cultural Change
45(3): 471-500. Manuscripts "The Agricultural Productivity Gap in Developing Countries," with David Lagakos (Arizona State University) and Michael Waugh (New York University), March 2012. "Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda," joint with Richard Rogerson (Arizona State University), March 2010. “Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements," joint with Fabian Lange ( Yale University), May 2009. "Do Taxes on Large Firms Impede Growth? Evidence from Ghana,” August 2006. “Malaria:
Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences,”
joint with
Christian Zimmermann (University of Connecticut), March 2010. "Malaria Policy: Alternative Prevention and Eradication Strategies in a Dynamic Model," joint with Christian Zimmermann (University of Connecticut), September 2007. “Impact
of International Research on Intertemporal Yield Stability in Wheat and Maize:
An Economic Assessment,” April 2006. Book Chapters and Articles "Climate Change and Technological Innovation in Agriculture: Adaptation through Science," chapter for the Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture. Forthcoming. "Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth," chapter for Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Volume 4, June 2009. "Labour's Share of Income," entry for the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, 2007. “Contributions of National Agricultural Research Systems to Crop Productivity,” with R. E. Evenson., in Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 3a (New York: North-Holland, 2007). Data Sets Bob Evenson's guesstimates of modern variety diffusion by country and by crop, 1960-2000. For health reasons, Bob is no longer able to provide a detailed description of his methodology in compiling this data set, but his estimates were based on careful review of data from national and international centers. Data and figures for Evenson-Gollin Science article. Factor share data for my 2002 JPE paper "Getting Income Shares Right". |