Plastina, Lence publish in Agricultural Economics
Alejandro Plastina, Associate Professor of Economics, and Sergio Lence, Professor of Economics, published in the latest issue of Agricultural Economics. Plastina and Lence authored the article "How weather affects the decomposition of total factor productivity in U.S. agriculture" with Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Associate Professor of Economics, at Cornell University. The article illustrates and quantifies how overlooking the impact of weather shocks can affect the measurement and decomposition of agricultural total factor productivity change. The full article is available here.
"How weather affects the decomposition of total factor productivity in U.S. agriculture"
Alejandro Plastina, Sergio H. Lence, and Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
Agricultural Economics
https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12615
(Released March 2021)