Brown, Mark
[VerfasserIn]
;
Viju, Crina
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Ferguson, Shon M.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]National Bureau of Economic Research
Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change
: Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
Erschienen:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2017
Erschienen in:NBER working paper series ; no. w23857
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Englisch
DOI:
10.3386/w23857
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We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new results. We find that the reform-induced shift from producing low-value to high-value crops for export, the adoption of new seeding technologies and reduction in summerfallow observed at the aggregate level between 1991 and 2001 were driven mainly by the within-farm effect. In the longer run, however, reallocation of land from shrinking and exiting farms to growing and new farms explains more than half of the aggregate changes in technology adoption and land use between 1991 and 2011