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Three Essays On The Labor Allocation Decisions Of The Modern Farm Family, Jeremy Michael D'Antoni
Three Essays On The Labor Allocation Decisions Of The Modern Farm Family, Jeremy Michael D'Antoni
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The goal of this dissertation is to address the role of government payments in the allocation of off-farm labor through three essays. Government payments have been a part of agriculture since 1933 and at no time has the government stated a policy objective of decreasing the agricultural labor force. Using time series data and new econometric techniques, the first essay finds agricultural policy may have an unintended impact on labor migration. Specifically, we find that government payments increased labor migration from the farm. From 1939 to 2007, increased direct government payments resulted in greater migration of labor from agriculture. The …