Heterogeneity and distributional form of farm-level yields

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 144-160

  Claassen, Roger ^a   Just, Richard E ^b  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

county aggregation; crop insurance; crop yields; risk; yield distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP YIELD; HETEROGENEITY; INSURANCE SYSTEM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79952943112     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aaq111     Document Type: Article

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