Organic farmers or conventional farmers: Where's the money?
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Keywords
Organic farming; Propensity score matching; Average treatment effect; Nearest neighbor matching; Farm household income; Farm revenue;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
- Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
- J43 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Agricultural Labor Markets
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
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