Data/hora: 07/06/2024 04:51:01

Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Economic Well-Being of Farm Households
Autores: | Jones,   Carol Adaire; El-Osta,   Hisham S.; Green,   Robert C.
Data: | 2006-05-18
Ano: | 2006
Palavras-chave: | Farm households; Household income; Household wealth; Household net worth; Living expenses; Joint income-wealth indicator; Economic well-being; Financial well-being; Off-farm employment; Income variability; ERS; USDA; Consumer/Household Economics.
Resumo: | Farm subsidy programs were introduced in the 1930s largely due to concern for chronically low, and highly variable, incomes of US farm households. Today commodity-based support programs are still prominent, though income and wealth of the average farm household now exceed that of the average nonfarm households - by a large margin. Farm income continues to be highly variable, but the small set of farm households most at risk for income variability - because farm income represents more than one-third of household income - are those operating large farms. And they have substantial net worth, which cushions uncertain farm income.
Tipo: | Report
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

21220

http://purl.umn.edu/34095

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

United States Department of Agriculture&gt;Economic Research Service&gt;Economic Brief

Economic Brief Number 7

Formato:

6

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