On price risk and the inverse farm size-productivity relationship
On price risk and the inverse farm size-productivity relationship
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DOI：
10.1016/s0304-3878(96)00412-9
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发表时间：
1996-12-01
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5
通讯作者：
Barrett, CB
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作者：
Barrett, CB
农场规模和生产力之间经常观察到的反比关系引出了几种具有重要政策和理论意义的解释。本文利用价格风险对生产者行为影响的分析进展，以及在做出劳动力配置决策时在价格不确定性下生产和消费的农业家庭的简单两阶段模型，分析证明非退化土地分配和价格风险可以共同产生反比关系，即使没有任何更常见的解释。来自马达加斯加的经验证据证实了这种对这一现象的直观解释的合理性。
The oft-observed inverse relationship between farm size and productivity has elicited several explanations having important policy and theoretical implications. Using advances in the analysis of price risk effects on producer behavior, and a simple two-period model of an agricultural household that both produces and consumes under price uncertainty at the time labor allocation decisions are made, this paper demonstrates analytically that a non-degenerate land distribution and price risk can together produce an inverse relationship, even absent any of the more common explanations. Empirical evidence from Madagascar confirms the plausibility of this intuitive explanation for the phenomenon.