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A Note on the Measurement of Spillovers of Agricultural Research Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Joseph Havlicek Jr.  and
Fred C. White
Joseph Havlicek Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland
Fred C. White
Affiliation:
Agricultural Economics at the University of Georgia
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Abstract

Three measures of agricultural research spillovers considered entail estimates based on (1) level of agricultural research expenditures, (2) marginal products of agricultural research and extension expenditures, and (3) marginal products of agricultural research and extension expenditures weighted by the level of agricultural research expenditures.

The methods produce diverse spillovers but results indicate that spillovers generally exceed regional benefits attributable to a region's investment in agricultural research and extension. Also, ratios of spillovers to regional benefits exceed ratios of federal to state expenditures on agricultural research suggesting potential social benefits from additional financial support of agricultural research by the federal government.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Fall 1983 , pp. 127 - 130
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

Funding for this research was provided by CSRS, USDA through IR-6, “National and Regional Planning Evaluation, Analysis, and Coordination.” Scientific Article No. A-3718, Contribution No. 6694 of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.

References

Havlicek, Joseph Jr., and White, Fred C., “Interregional Transfer of Agricultural Research Results: The Case of the Northeast,” Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council, Vol. XII, No. 2, Fall 1983, pp. 19–30.Google Scholar
Havlicek, Joseph Jr., and White, Fred C., “Interregional Transfer of Agricultural Results Among Ten Production Regions of the U.S.” Paper presented at the Sixteenth International Atlantic Economics Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 6–9, 1983.Google Scholar