Estimating permanent income and wealth of the us farm households

Applied Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1521-1533

  Mishra, Ashok Kumar ^a   Paudel, Krishna P ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FARM SIZE; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79956204353     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802600582     Document Type: Article

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