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Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth

ISU Economics Working Papers

Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency?: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
Author(s):   Peter Orazem, Milan Vodopivec
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #03025, September 26, 2003
Published In:   Southern Economic Journal , Forthcoming
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Measuring Public Agricultural Research Capital and Its Contribution to State Agricultural Productivity
Author(s):   Wallace Huffman
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #09022, November 12, 2009
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Rising Food and Energy Prices: Projections for Labor Markets 2008-18 and Beyond
Author(s):   Wallace Huffman
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #08030, October 28, 2008
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Testing for Complementarity and Substitutability among Multiple Technologies: The Case of U.S. Hog Farms
Author(s):   Li Yu, Terrance Hurley, James Kliebenstein, Peter Orazem
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #08026, September 2, 2008
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Heterogeneity of Southern Countries and Southern Intellectual Property Rights Policy
Author(s):   Harvey E. Lapan, Jeong-Eon Kim
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #06008, March 23, 2006
Published In:   Canadian Journal of Economics , Vol. 41, 3, pp. 894-925, August, 2008
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Patents, Research Exemption, and the Incentive for Sequential Innovation
Author(s):   GianCarlo Moschini, Oleg Yerokhin
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #06019, April 26, 2006
Published In:   Journal of Economics & Management Strategy , Vol. 17, pp. 379-412
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The Benefits and Costs of Alternative Strategies to Improve Educational Outcomes
Author(s):   Peter Orazem, Paul Glewwe, Harry Patrinos
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #07028, November 2, 2007
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Measuring the Impact of Meat Packing and Processing Facilities in the Nonmetropolitan Midwest: A Difference-in-Differences Approach
Author(s):   Georgeanne M Artz, Peter Orazem, Daniel Otto
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #03003, November 16, 2005
Published In:   American Journal of Agricultural Economics , Vol. 89, 3, pp. 557-570, August, 2007
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Grading, Minimum Quality Standards, and the Labeling of Genetically Modified Products
Author(s):   Harvey E. Lapan, GianCarlo Moschini
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #06012, March 23, 2006
Published In:   American Journal of Agricultural Economics , Vol. 89, 3, pp. 769-83, August, 2007
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UNSAFE SEX, AIDS, and DEVELOPMENT
Author(s):   Joydeep Bhattacharya, Helle Bunzel, Xue Qiao
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #07016, July 9, 2007
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Author(s):   Yemisi Kuku, Peter Orazem, Rajesh Singh
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #04021, October 10, 2004
Published In:   Economics of Transition , Vol. 15, 1, pp. 33-56, March, 2007
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The Role of Agriculture and Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling, and Health
Author(s):   Wallace Huffman, Peter Orazem
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #04016, August 19, 2004
Published In:   Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 3, Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets , Elsevier Science, New York, NY, pp. 2281-2342
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Lack of Education
Author(s):   Peter Orazem
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #06029, August 29, 2006
Published In:   Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems: Costs and Benefits , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 241-262
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition: Theory Appendix
Author(s):   Peter Orazem, Rajesh Singh, Yemisi Kuku
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #06033, September 26, 2006
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Farm Technology and Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Four Regions in China
Author(s):   Zhuo Chen, Wallace Huffman, Scott Rozelle
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #06022, May 1, 2006
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Broadband Access, Telecommuting and the Urban-Rural Digital Divide
Author(s):   Moohoun Song, Peter Orazem, Rajesh Singh
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #06002, February 2, 2006
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Endogenous lifetime and economic growth revisited
Author(s):   Helle Bunzel, Xue Qiao
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #04023, October 11, 2004
Published In:   Economics Bulletin , Vol. 15, 8, pp. 1-8, October 11, 2004
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Robust Estimates of Value of a Statistical Life for Developing Economies. An Application to Pollution and Mortality in Santiago
Author(s):  Brad J. Bowland, John C. Beghin
Series:  ISU Economics Working Paper #NDN0012, August 1, 1998
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CARD Working Papers

Got milk? The rapid rise of China's dairy sector and its future prospects
Author(s):   Frank H. Fuller, Jikun Huang, Hengyun Ma, Scott Rozelle
Series:  CARD Working Paper #05-WP 394, May 1, 2005
Published In:   Food Policy , Vol. 31, pp. 201-215
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Environment and Trade in Developing Economies: A Primer for the World Bank's 'Global Economic Prospects 2001'
Author(s):   John C. Beghin
Series:  CARD Working Paper #00-WP 247, August 2000
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Transition to Markets and the Environment: Effects of the Change in the Composition of Manufacturing Output
Author(s):  Tomislav Vukina, John C. Beghin, Ebru G. Solakoglu
Series:  CARD Working Paper #NDN0008, March 1999
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Trade Integration, Environmental Degradation, and Public Health in Chile: Assessing the Linkages
Author(s):  John Beghin, Brad Bowland, Sebastian Dessus, David Roland-Holst, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe
Series:  CARD Working Paper #NDN0007, February 1999
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