Assessing the Causal Effect of Decoupled Payments on farm labour in Tuscany Using Propensity Score Methods

Fabio Bartolini (), Gianluca Brunori, Alessandra Coli, Chiara Landi and Barbara Pacini

No 211200, 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy from International Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: We analyze the impact on employment of the 2003/2005 CAP reform (decoupled payments) in Tuscany farms. We use data coming from census (2000 and 2010) and administrative archives, and apply propensity score-based methods to evaluate the average treatment effect of pay- ments on employment-related outcomes, taking into account that the assignment mechanism of payments was non-random. We further investigate impact heterogeneity using a generalized propensity-score matching methodology focussing on a subgroup of farms. Results show that there exists some effect of the payments on employment and that the impact is heterogeneous over the different amounts of payments.

Keywords: Agribusiness; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.211200

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