This paper analyses the impact of a set of direct payment tools of the Common Agricultural Policy on the distribution of household income among Italian farm families. It considers a large sample of Italian farm families and applies the Gini decomposition approach. The analysis accounts for...

Farm direct payments (DPs) have been the main instrument of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to support farm income in the EU. This paper addresses the role of direct payments granted in the context of the market and income support policies and of rural development policies in the...