Family Composition and Off‐Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm Households
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Family Composition and Off-Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm Households
This article studies the relationship between the off-farm participation behavior of farm operators and their spouses and the demographic composition of the household. I focus on farm families without parents, siblings or partners, and examine the effects of the existence of elderly children of the farm couple. I find that both the father and the mother tend to reduce their participation in off...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Agricultural Economics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0002-9092,1467-8276
DOI: 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00595.x