Impacts of Farm Characteristics on Difference and Growth in Farm Size : Analysis of Korean Farm-Level Panel Data

• 발행기관: 한국농식품정책학회
• 저자명: Kang Hye jung
• 간행물 정보: 『농업경영.정책연구』농업경영·정책연구 33권 3호, 630~645쪽, 전체 16쪽
• 주제분류: 농수해양 > 식품과학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.09.30

영문 초록

This paper examines the impacts of farm characteristics on difference and growth in farm size, using farm-level panel data from 1998 to 2002. The study employs the random effects model, which controls for the presence of heteroskedasticity across panels and autocorrelation within panels in estimation. Empirical results demonstrate that farm operator s age and education, family size, farming type, regional characteristics played important roles in accounting for the difference in farm size and growth. It is found that farm size and growth increased with operator age at early ages but decreased once a threshold age was reached. Farm size and growth increased as the education level of the farm operator increased up to a certain years of education and declined thereafter. Farm size and growth were positively affected by family size. The average farm sizes in rice farming type and hilly zone are larger than other farming types and zones. The percentage growth rate of farm size is inversely related to previous farm size, implying that growth of farm size is dependent of the initial farm size.

목차

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. Data and Summary Statistics

III. Empirical Implementation

IV. Empirical results

V. Concluding Remark

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키워드

farm size panel data farm characteristics human capital random effects model