Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-15-1998
Keywords
ropland diversion programs, farming-dependent counties, rural nonfarm population change
Abstract
Data from 100 farming-dependent counties in the U.S. are used to measure the impact of acreage reduction programs on the level of the rural nonfarm population. Results of a simultaneous equation model suggest that the programs had a negative influence on the number of rural nonfarm people, reducing the rural nonfarm population in these counties by an estimated 15 to 22 percent over the 1960-90 period.
Publisher
Department of Economics, South Dakota State University
Series Number
98-2
Number of Pages
23
Recommended Citation
Van der Sluis, Evert and Peterson, Willis, "Cropland Diversion Programs and Rural Nonfarm Population
Change" (1998). Economics Staff Paper Series. 136.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/econ_staffpaper/136