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American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volume 88 Issue 5, Pages 1289 - 1295

Published Online: 20 Nov 2006

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Elizabeth E. Davis ¹ , Matthew Freedman ² , Julia Lane ³ , Brian McCall ⁴ , Nicole Nestoriak ⁵ , Timothy Park ⁶

¹ Elizabeth E. Davis is associate professor, University of Minnesota ; ² Matthew Freedman is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics, University of Maryland-College Park , ³ Julia Lane is Senior Vice President and Director, Economics, Labor and Population Department, NORC-University of Chicago ; ⁴ Brian McCall is professor, University of Minnesota ; ⁵ Nicole Nestoriak is Economist, Bureau of Economic Analysis ; and ⁶ Timothy Park is professor, University of Georgia.

Earlier versions of this article have benefited from helpful comments from Charles Brown, Erica Groshen, James Hertel, Jean Kinsey, Anne Russell, and Scott Scheuler. This research uses confidential data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program (LEHD), which is partially supported by the National Science Foundation Grant SES-9978093 to Cornell University (Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research), the National Institute on Aging, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Disclaimer: The analysis presented here has undergone a more limited review than an official Census Bureau publication. The views expressed are attributable only to the authors and do not represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, program sponsors or the data providers.

This article was presented in a principal paper session at the AAEA annual meeting (Long Beach, CA, July 2006). The articles in these sessions are not subjected to the journal's standard refereeing process.