Collaborative Research on American Agriculture in an Industrializing World: Completing a Panel Database

工业化世界中美国农业的合作研究：完成面板数据库

• 批准号: 9309538
• 负责人: Fred Bateman
• 金额: $ 23.44万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-08-15 至 1998-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9309538&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; American; Agriculture; Industrializing

9309538 Bateman The purpose of this collaborative project is to collect the remaining farm and household data from the federal censuses of agriculture and population for a sample of 140 rural townships across the northern half of the United States, and to assemble from them a panel database covering a vital sector of the American economy at a crucial juncture in time. The data will form a critical link between a cross-sectional sample from these same communities that was drawn over twenty years ago and a similar cross-sectional sample that is now being completed. These cross-sections cover a thirty-year period for tens of thousands of farms and hundreds of thousands of individuals. They provide one of the most detailed and comprehensive views of economic and social interactions in rural America and the outcomes of the decisions made by individual farmers. Among the questions that will be addressed using these panel data are agricultural's adaptation to change in competition, the scale and scope of markets resulting from reductions in transportation costs, and changes in international trade policies; the changing structure of farms and farm ownership; and the consequences of rural to urban migration upon rural areas. This research is important because it will offer new insights into the development of the American economy at a critical period of its history, and it will produce a valuable database for economists, demographers, rural sociologist, and other scholars interested in economic growth and development and rural to urban migration. ***

9309538贝特曼这个合作项目的目的是收集剩余的农场和家庭数据从联邦农业和人口普查的样本140个乡镇在北方美国的一半，并从他们组装一个面板数据库，涵盖了美国经济的一个重要部门在一个关键时刻。 这些数据将在二十多年前从这些社区抽取的横截面样本与目前正在完成的类似横截面样本之间形成关键联系。 这些横截面涵盖了数万个农场和数十万个人的30年时间。 它们提供了美国农村经济和社会互动的最详细和最全面的观点之一，以及单个农民所做决定的结果。 将使用这些面板数据处理的问题包括：农业对竞争变化的适应、运输成本降低和国际贸易政策变化所产生的市场规模和范围;农场和农场所有权结构的变化;农村人口向城市迁移对农村地区的影响。 这项研究很重要，因为它将为美国经济在其历史的关键时期的发展提供新的见解，它将为经济学家，人口学家，农村社会学家和其他对经济增长和发展以及农村向城市迁移感兴趣的学者提供有价值的数据库。 ***