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

9308717考虑到这个合作项目的目的是从联邦农业和人口普查中收集剩余的农业和家庭数据，从美国北半部的140个农村城镇中抽样，并根据这些数据建立一个小组数据库，及时涵盖美国经济在关键时刻的一个重要部门。这些数据将在20多年前从这些社区采集的横断面样本与现在正在完成的类似横断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个体的30年期间。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，以及个别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程度；运输成本降低带来的市场规模和范围以及国际贸易政策的变化；农场和农场所有权结构的变化；以及从农村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，并将为经济学家、人口学家、农村社会学家和其他对经济增长和发展以及从农村向城市迁移感兴趣的学者提供一个宝贵的数据库。***

9308717 Atack 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. ***