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- Title
Of women and land: How gender affects successions and transfers of Iowa farms.
- Authors
Liu, Qing; Maule, Beatrice; Zhang, Wendong
- Abstract
Using 589 responses to the 2019 Iowa Farm Transfer Survey, we examine factors in farm successor choices among Iowa farmers with a focus on female successors and landowners. Among those with identified successors, 57% chose sons and 8% chose daughters. We find a 12.4% probability a female farmer will choose a daughter, but only 5.9% for a male farmer. Agriculture experience increases the probability of choosing a daughter from 5.4% to 20.7% and from 36.3% to 65.2% for a son. Our paper reveals striking evidence of gender imbalance in farm succession, transfer, and inheritance decisions of US farms.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURE; WOMEN farmers; LANDOWNERS; FARMS; INHERITANCE &; succession; GENDER; LAND tenure
- Publication
Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 4, p2255
- ISSN
2040-5790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/aepp.13363