Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of direct government payments on agricultural production … direct government payments had negative influences on US agricultural production and exports, and the lagged influences were … positive, but as a whole the impacts of direct government payments were very limited. Practical implications – Findings from …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of direct government payments on agricultural production … direct government payments had negative influences on US agricultural production and exports, and the lagged influences were … positive, but as a whole the impacts of direct government payments were very limited. Practical implications – Findings from …

government payments resulted in greater migration of labor from agriculture. Government policy appears to have shown limited …. Specifically, we find that government payments increased labor migration from the farm. From 1939 to 2007, increased direct …