What did they do with the money? An analysis of tobacco farmers' expenditure choices

Maria Marshall and Helen Pushkarskaya ()

No 9925, 2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: There are many expenditure options available to farmers who received a tobacco buyout check. We used a multinomial logit model to analyze how farmer, business, and household characteristics influenced the choice of expenditure option. We found statistically significant differences in the way farmers chose to spend their buyout money based on age, education, gender, and internet use. We also found that farmer optimism had a statistically significant impact on expenditure choice. Overall, our analysis suggests that it is important for policymakers to take into account this heterogeneity instead of treating all farmers as a homogeneous group of representative agents.

Keywords: Farm; Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.9925

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