CROPLAND DIVERSION PROGRAMS AND RURAL NONFARM POPULATION CHANGE

Evert Van der Sluis and Willis L. Peterson

No 32026, Economics Staff Papers from South Dakota State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Data from 100 farming-dependent counties in the U.S. are used to measure the impact of acreage reduction programs on the level of the rural nonfarm population. Results of a simultaneous equation model suggest that the programs had a negative influence on the number of rural nonfarm people, reducing the rural nonfarm population in these counties by an estimated 15 to 22 percent over the 1960-90 period.

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.32026

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