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Education, Information, and Efficiency

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This represents two chapters of a proposed book co-authored by Bob Evenson and myself. The subject is relationships between agricultural productivity, research and information. The first chapter of this part is concerned with the "theory" of the value of information. Among other things, the Bayesian learning model is used as a vehicle for describing optimal learning from experience. The second chapter presents results for a number of empirical studies concerned with relationships between education and allocative efficiency. Section I is reprinted from my J.P.E. paper "Education in Production". Section II is the "Scale Economy" paper of mine which has existed in various unpublished versions for two years now. The final section summarizes recent discussions by Wallace Huffman (Chicago), Nabil Khaloi (SMU) and Charles Fane (Harvard).

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  • Finis Welch, 1973. "Education, Information, and Efficiency," NBER Working Papers 0001, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    1. Robert Evenson, 1967. "The Contribution of Agricultural Research to Production," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 49(5), pages 1415-1425.
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    1. Joel M. Guttman, 1978. "Villages as Interest Groups: The Demand for Agricultural Extension Services in India," UCLA Economics Working Papers 128, UCLA Department of Economics.

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