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A Framework for Analyzing the Impacts on Agriculture of Government Policies Leading to Industrial Development in Non-Urban Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Patty J. Skelding
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
Lawrence W. Libby
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University
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Abstract

Policy-makers need analytical frameworks which aid in evaluating the distribution of impacts of their decisions. The first section of this paper describes an Environment – Behavior – Impact framework for analyzing the impacts on agriculture of government policy changes which favor development in non-urban areas. An illustration of the framework using a hypothetical example follows, and the final section is a discussion of the applicability of empirical methods to the framework.

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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

The authors are grateful to Eileen 0. VanRavens-waay and Lee M. Day for useful comments.

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