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Motivations to work off-farm among U.S. farm women

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  • Bharadwaj, Latika
  • Findeis, Jill L.
  • Chintawar, Sachin

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Women work off-farm for numerous reasons, ranging from supporting the farm or household financially, meeting people, and having an independent source of income. But very few studies have analyzed factors affecting motivations, and impacts of these motivations on individual behavior, e.g., the decision to engage in off-farm employment. This paper examines factors affecting motivations for off-farm work among farm women in the U.S., estimating ordered probit models corrected for sample selection bias for the motivation choices. Our findings are consistent with the idea that motivations do matter in explaining the impact of various (individual, family, farm and labor market) characteristics on labor participation.

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  • Bharadwaj, Latika & Findeis, Jill L. & Chintawar, Sachin, 2013. "Motivations to work off-farm among U.S. farm women," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 71-77.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:soceco:v:45:y:2013:i:c:p:71-77
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2013.04.002
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    Keywords

    Off-farm labor participation; Ordered probit; Motivations; Farm women; Sample selection;
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    JEL classification:

    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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