Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/98296 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Series/Report no.: 
Center Discussion Paper No. 773
Publisher: 
Yale University, Economic Growth Center, New Haven, CT
Abstract: 
Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman and Robert E. Evenson The paper presents (1) a conceptual framework for structural change when farms may be multiproduct or specialized and (2) an econometrics examination of causes of structural and total factor productivity (TFP) change for U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and they become potential channels to TFP change. Using state aggregate data starting in 1950, we conclude that input prices, public and private research, public extension, and government commodity programs have directly and indirectly caused change in U.S. farm structure and TFP. Our results suggest that changes in farm size, however, have been dominated by input price changes rather than by technology or government programs.
Subjects: 
farm structure
productivity
farm size
farm specialization
part-time farming
research
technical change
agriculture
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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