Ingrid Henriksen|Kevin O’Rourke
Incentives, technology and the shift to year?round dairying in late nineteenth?century Denmark<sup>1</sup>
University of Copenhagen|Trinity College Dublin
article uses monthly trade data document decline seasonality danish butter exports occurred 1880s onwards decline contrasted steady increasing seasonality elsewhere monthly butter prices britain denmark ireland show incentives shift winter dairying particularly high 1880s 1890s however cannot explain danish shift since price data show farmers elsewhere faced winter premia every bit high danish premia crucial factor denmark generation empirical knowledge private public sectors systematically analysing empirical evidence rapid diffusion knowledge highly educated society via lectures exhibitions written materials institutions new cooperative sector willingness absorb knowledge profitmaximizing farmers