Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263478 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15262
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The aging of the farmer population has led to concern about a shortage of beginning farmers and ranchers. This study investigates the impact of health insurance coverage and participation in government and private insurance programs on off-farm labor allocation decisions of beginning farm-operator households in the United States. We use farm household-level data from the 2015 Agricultural Resource Management Survey and the simultaneous Probit estimation method to estimate our empirical model. Results show that beginning farm-operator households with health insurance coverage from off-farm jobs are 14% more likely to work off the farm. Our analysis also depicts a negative relationship between the receipt of counter-cyclical, conservation, risk management payments, and off-farm work by beginning farm-operator households.
Subjects: 
Agricultural Resource Management Survey
beginning farm-operator household
counter-cyclical payments
risk management payments
health insurance coverage
off-farm labor supply
two-stage simultaneous probit model
JEL: 
C34
I13
J22
J38
J43
Q12
Q18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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