Farm Size-Productivity Relationships in Pre-War Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Shonai Region of Yamagata Prefecture, 1935

Yutaka Arimoto, Takeshi Fujie and Tetsuji Senda

Economic Review, 2017, vol. 68, issue 4, 348-370

Abstract: This paper exploits farm-level data of rice cultivating farmers in 1935 to examine the farm sizeproductivity relationship in the Shonai Region of Yamagata Prefecture. We find no clear inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity or input intensity. The farmland rental market was almost perfect for leasing-out but not for leasing-in. These findings suggest that the inverse relationship did not prevail because the farmland rental market was relatively efficient. However, we did find some evidence that landscarce farmers were not able to lease-in enough land, and therefore kept excess labor relative to land.

JEL-codes: N55 Q12 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.15057/28847

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