Family Farms, Farm Size and Economies of Scale

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  • "Overestimates of Returns to Scale in Agriculture--A Case of Synchronized Aggregation," Journal of Farm Economics, 48:967-83, Nov. 1966.
  • "Prices, Technology and Farm Size," Journal of Political Economy, 90:578-95, 1982. (With Willis Peterson)
  • "Economies of Scale in Agriculture: A Reexamination of the Evidence," in The Economics of Agriculture, Volume 2: Papers in Honor of D. Gale Johnson, eds.: John M. Antle and Daniel A. Sumner, Chicago, 1996, pp. 156-170 (With Willis Peterson)
  • "Intergenerational Transfers of Farmers: The Israeli Experience," Chapters 4-9 from Intergenerational Transfers of Farmers in Different Institutional Environments, BARD Project IS-1845-90 Final Report, 1995. (With Ayal Kimhi and Ramon Lopez)
  • "Intergenerational Succession in Israeli Family Farms: 1971-1988," (With Ayal Kimhi and Shlomit Arbel), Chapter 19 in Intergenerational Transfers of Farmers in Different Institutional Environments, BARD Project IS-1845-90 Final Report
  • "Old Age Security and Inter-Generational Transfer of family Farms," European Review of Agricultural Economics, 26(1):19- 37,1999. (With Claudio Pasquin and Ayal Kimhi)
  • “Foreign Labor and Farm Structure,” Working paper 2003-amended 2013
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