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Title: Scale versus scope in the diffusion of new technology: evidence from the farm tractor

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2018

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ISSN: 07416261

DOI: 10.1111/1756-2171.12230

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Abstract: I am grateful to Barry Eichengreen for his support in this project. I also thank Dominick Bartelme, Carola Binder, Susan Carter, Brad DeLong, Alex Field, Joel Mokyr, Petra Moser, Alan Olmstead, Martha Olney, Paul Rhode, Daniel Robert, Richard Sutch, Noam Yuchtman, and the Editor and referees for helpful comments and suggestions, as well as participants in the BEHL Economic History Lunch, All‐UC Hundred Flowers conference, and NBER DAE Summer Institute poster session. I am grateful to Richard Sutch for sharing data on hybrid corn diffusion from the USDA Agricultural Statistics. I thank the Berkeley Economic History Lab and All‐UC Group in Economic History for financial support. This research was additionally supported by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Grant no. DGE‐1106400 and an EHA Graduate Fellowship. The appendices referenced in this article are available online at www.dpgross.com/. All errors are my own.

Url: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1756-2171.12230

Url: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/1756-2171.12230

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Authors: Gross, Daniel P.

Periodical (Full): The RAND Journal of Economics

Issue: 2

Volume: 49

Pages: 427-452

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Other

Countries: United States