全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w14704
来源ID	Working Paper 14704
	Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty
	Thomas J. Holmes; Sanghoon Lee
发表日期	2009-02-05
出版年	2009
语种	英语
摘要	We estimate the factors determining specialization of crop choice at the level of individual fields, distinguishing between the role of natural advantage (soil characteristics) and economies of density (scale economies achieved when farmers plant neighboring fields with the same crop). Using rich geographic data from North Dakota, including new data on crop choice collected by satellite, we estimate the analog of a social interactions econometric model for the planting decisions on neighboring fields. We find that planting decisions on a field are heavily dependent on the soil characteristics of the neighboring fields. Through this relationship, we back out the structural parameters of economies of density. Setting an Ellison-Glaeser dartboard level of specialization as a benchmark, we find that of the actual level of specialization achieved beyond this benchmark, approximately two-thirds can be attributed to natural advantage and one-third to density economies.
主题	Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w14704
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572380
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Thomas J. Holmes,Sanghoon Lee. Economies of Density versus Natural Advantage: Crop Choice on the Back Forty. 2009.

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