Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution

We thank Daron Acemoglu, Chris Barrett (Discussant), Francisco Costa, Bruno Ferman, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Fujiwara, Jon Gruber, Steven Helfand, Shawn Kantor (Discussant), David La-gakos, Bob Margo, Mushfiq Mobarak (Discussant), Ezra Oberfield, Richard Rogerson, Florian Trouvain, Chris Udry, and Leonard Wantchekon, as well as seminar participants at Berkeley ARE, Cornell, EESP-FGV, INSEAD, Northwestern, Oxford, Princeton, Sciences Po, Stockholm University, the TSE, Notre Dame, the University of Connecticut, the University of Copenhagen, Wharton, DePaul, the University of Oklahoma, LSE, IFPRI, IADB, the NBER Development Economics Workshop, the NBER Place-Based Policies and En-trepreneurship Workshop, the RIDGE Forum, the LACEA Annual Meeting, and the SED for helpful com-ments. We are also grateful to several researchers from Embrapa, including Mateus Batistella, Luiz Antonio de Araujo Cruz, Ana Beatriz Juca de Queiroz Fiuza, Geraldo Martha, and Ramon Bicudo, for many helpful discussions. Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of the IADB. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of the Inter-American Development Bank or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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