Effect of agricultural policy on succession decisions of farm households

Review of Economics of the Household

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 285-307

  Mishra, Ashok K ^a   El Osta, Hisham S ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural policy; Agricultural Resource Management Survey; Conditional logit model; Farm growth; Intergenerational succession; Off farm labor participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249172217     PISSN: 15695239     EISSN: 15737152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11150-008-9032-7     Document Type: Article

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