Economic Well-Being of Farm Households

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英文名称：

Economic Well-Being of Farm Households

作者：

Carol Jones; Hisham S. El-Osta; Robert Green

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=42921

关键词：

Farm households;  household income;  household wealth;  household net worth;  living expenses;  joint income-wealth indicator;  economic well-being;  financial well-being;  Off-farm employment;  Income variability; 

年份：

2006

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

4 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

Farm subsidy programs were introduced in the 1930s largely due to concern for chronically low, and highly variable, incomes of US farm households. Today commodity-based support programs are still prominent, though income and wealth of the average farm household now exceed that of the average nonfarm households - by a large margin. Farm income continues to be highly variable, but the small set of farm households most at risk for income variability - because farm income represents more than one-third of household income - are those operating large farms. And they have substantial net worth, which cushions uncertain farm income.