One often hears and sees reference to bimodal distributions of farm size. This notion seems to have become one of the stylized facts about American agriculture. Dairy farm size distributions are prime candidates to exhibit a bimodal size distribution. Older dairy farms tend to be significantly...

The presence of potentially binding constraints in rural labor markets is investigated by examining spillover effects on land market participation decisions. Farm and household data from ICRISAT village level surveys are used in a multinominial logit model that accounts for the simultaneous...

This short paper models physical content policies in a bilateral monopoly setting using a cooperative game approach. For just binding or nonbinding content requirements, the policy does not induce any deadweight loss but alters the profit distribution in favor of the domestic supplier. This...

A better understanding of the development of part-time farming in China would be invaluable both for academic inquiry and policy formulation. This study, using farm-level survey data, examines the development of part-time farming in China. The two key questions examined are (1) how part-time...

Agricultural economics research is an international endeavour that benefits from the free exchange of knowledge. Using data from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) we compare for the period 1987-97 the published contributions by agricultural economics professors from universities in...