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Cropland Diversions and Rural Nonfarm Population Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Evert Van der Sluis  and
Willis L. Peterson
Evert Van der Sluis
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, South Dakota State University
Willis L. Peterson
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota
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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 15-16% over the 1960-90 period.

Keywords

cropland diversion programsfarming-dependent countiesrural nonfarm population change
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , December 1998 , pp. 353 - 362
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1998

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