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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Do Agricultural Preservation Programs Affect Farmland Conversion?
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| Autores: |
Liu, Xiangping
Lynch, Lori
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| Data: |
2007-06-27
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| Ano: |
2007
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| Palavras-chave: |
Agricultural preservation programs
Farmland
Propensity score
Farmland conversion
Urban-rural interface
Land Economics/Use
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| Resumo: |
More than 124 governmental entities concerned about suburban sprawl and farmland loss have implemented farmland preservation programs preserving 1.67 million acres at a cost of $3.723 billion. We ask how effective are these programs in slowing the rate of farmland loss. Using a unique 50-year 269 county panel data set on preservation programs and farmland loss for six Mid-Atlantic States, we employ the propensity score matching method to find strong empirical evidence that these programs have had a statistically significant effect on the rate of farmland loss. Preservation programs on average decrease the rate of farmland loss by 2.4 percentage points; a 33% decrease from the average 5-year rate of 7.31%.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
26418
http://purl.umn.edu/9764
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
American Agricultural Economics Association>2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon
Selected Paper 174401
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| Formato: |
33
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