Measuring the economic contribution of Agricultural and Applied Economics departments in the United States

IF 3.3 2区 经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI:10.1002/aepp.13454
Michael K. Adjemian, Raghav Goyal, Ron Mittelhammer, Dawn Thilmany
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Agricultural and applied economists make substantial positive contributions to the domestic economy. Defining a measure of the true total value of their contributions is likely impossible, because so much about their efforts is difficult to comprehensively observe and quantitatively document. In this paper, we adopt a conservative approach to generating an estimate of the contributions ag and applied economists make to U.S. economic output and the associated welfare of society through their teaching, research, and outreach efforts. To conduct the analysis, we implemented a nationwide survey of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AAE) departments and developed a framework to calculate the value of their contributions to national income, or Gross Domestic Product (GDP). We estimate that AAE departments increase overall U.S. GDP by $2.6 billion, annually. Through its efforts to improve the human capital of its graduates, AAE teaching raises the (expected) national income by $2.2–$2.3 billion, while we value direct research and outreach contributions at $207 million and $146 million, respectively. Because we do not observe the opportunity cost of the resources used to generate those contributions, we do not claim to estimate a true net economic impact but rather attempt to quantify the gross economic contributions of the professional services AAE departments currently offer the economy. The values we provide—especially the research and extension estimates which are exceedingly difficult to measure—likely underestimate the true benefits AAE offers to the nation.

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衡量美国农业与应用经济学系的经济贡献
农业和应用经济学家为国内经济做出了巨大的积极贡献。要衡量他们所做贡献的真实总价值很可能是不可能的,因为他们所做的很多工作都很难被全面观察和量化记录。在本文中,我们采用一种保守的方法来估算农业经济学家和应用经济学家通过其教学、研究和推广工作对美国经济产出和相关社会福利所做的贡献。为了进行分析,我们在全国范围内对农业与应用经济学(AAE)系进行了调查,并制定了一个框架来计算他们对国民收入或国内生产总值(GDP)的贡献值。我们估计,农业与应用经济学系每年为美国总体 GDP 增加 26 亿美元。通过努力提高毕业生的人力资本,AAE 教学使国民收入(预期)增加了 22 亿至 23 亿美元,而我们估算的直接研究和外联贡献分别为 2.07 亿美元和 1.46 亿美元。由于我们没有观察到用于产生这些贡献的资源的机会成本,因此我们并不声称能够估算出真正的净经济影响,而是试图量化 AAE 学科目前为经济提供的专业服务的总经济贡献。我们提供的数值--尤其是极难衡量的研究和推广估算--可能低估了 AAE 为国家带来的真正利益。
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-
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10.70
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy provides a forum to address contemporary and emerging policy issues within an economic framework that informs the decision-making and policy-making community. AEPP welcomes submissions related to the economics of public policy themes associated with agriculture; animal, plant, and human health; energy; environment; food and consumer behavior; international development; natural hazards; natural resources; population and migration; and regional and rural development.
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