Decomposition of Variability in Farm Household Assets and Debt

Ashok Mishra () and Hisham S. El-Osta

Journal of Agribusiness, 2005, vol. 23, issue 2, 20

Abstract: Farm families often hold large quantities of wealth and, like any other family, assess their financial progress by reviewing their net worth (or wealth) position periodically. Wealth has an impact on many decisions such as production, retirement, and succession of the farm. Households, in general, seek stability growth in wealth and, ideally, income as well. In the case of wealth, farm households will be better equipped to handle variability once the contributing sources are identified. This study measures how much of the variability in farm household assets and debt is attributed to the variability in farm and nonfarm sources of assets and farm and nonfarm sources of debt. Using a normalized variance decomposition approach and data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), results show that origin of asset and debt variability differs with farm size and location of the farm household.

Keywords: Farm Management; Financial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.59682

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