Publications:

Science under scarcity: Principles and practice for agricultural research evaluation and priority setting
JM Alston, GW Norton, PG Pardey
International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1995

A meta-analysis of rates of return to agricultural R&D: Ex pede Herculem?
JM Alston, C Chan-Kang, MC Marra, PG Pardey, TJ Wyatt
Intl Food Policy Res Inst, 2000

Elasticities in AIDS models
R Green, JM Alston
American journal of agricultural economics 72 (2), 442-445, 1990

Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run
JM Alston, JM Beddow, PG Pardey
Science 325 (5945), 1209-1210, 2009

Persistence pays: US agricultural productivity growth and the benefits from public R&D spending
JM Alston, MA Andersen, JS James, PG Pardey
Springer Science & Business Media, 2009