Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/183410 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1181
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new results. We find that the reform-induced shift from producing low-value to high-value crops for export, the adoption of new seeding technologies and reduction in summerfallow observed at the aggregate level between 1991 and 2001 were driven mainly by the within-farm effect. In the longer run, however, reallocation of land from shrinking and exiting farms to growing and new farms explains more than half of the aggregate changes in technology adoption and land use between 1991 and 2011.
Subjects: 
Agricultural Trade Liberalization
Export Subsidy
Technical Change
Farm Size
Firm Heterogeneity
JEL: 
F14
O13
Q16
Q17
Q18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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