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On Some Determinants of Farm Size Across Countries
Author(s) -
Huang Yukon
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1238669
Subject(s) - endowment , industrialisation , factor endowment , econometrics , variation (astronomy) , economics , regression analysis , regression , statistics , developing country , mathematics , economic growth , political science , physics , astrophysics , law , market economy
Abstract Several measures of average farm size are developed, using resource endowment, degree of industrialization, factor proportions as the explanatory variables for 53 countries. The three determinants explain much of the variation in average farm size, using cross‐sectional regression techniques.