The Distribution of Gains from Technological Advance When Input Quality Varies

Susan E. Offutt; Philip Garcia; Musa Pinar

doi:10.2307/1242282

The Distribution of Gains from Technological Advance When Input Quality Varies

Susan E. Offutt
, Philip Garcia
, Musa Pinar

Agricultural and Consumer Economics

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Abstract

Empirical evidence about new corn production technology in Illinois supports the hypothesis that yield- and output-enhancing effects vary depending on whether technology is input (here, land) quality-dependent or independent. In turn, these differences affect the distribution of economic surplus from technology adoption across geographic regions with varying land quality. A competitive, market-clearing model for a traded commodity is used to estimate the gains in economic surplus from technological advance.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	321-327
Number of pages	7
Journal	American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Volume	69
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/1242282
State	Published - May 1987

Keywords

Corn yields
Economic surplus
Input quality
Technology

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Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Economics and Econometrics

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