This survey paper explores the literature on decoupling of farm programs that has emerged
in the last 10 years. The paper identifies and assesses the various channels of potential …

Economic reasoning and some empirical evidence suggest that government payments in-
crease rents on agricultural lands to which the payments are attached (Barnard et al., Floyd …

Economic theory suggests that coupled and decoupled direct payments have different
impacts on agricultural rental values because of the different production responses …

We develop a household model wherein farmers allocate labor to maximize utility from
leisure, consumption, and nonpecuniary benefits from farming. The model shows that …

Off‐farm labour decisions of a sample of Kansas farmers are evaluated. The central question
of our analysis pertains to whether 1996 US farm policy reforms may have altered the …

Using a decomposition method, this paper proposes an analytical framework to investigate
the mechanisms by which agricultural support policies affect farmers' use of fertilizers in …

Do direct payments alter operators' acreage decisions? The authors use an event study with
individual‐level data in a panel‐data setting to examine how an exogenous change in direct …

This article determines the contribution of recent European Union agricultural policy reforms
on the use of pesticides. Our theoretical model extends the multioutput generalization of the …

Summary The European Union is increasingly relying on direct payments to support farm
incomes. Recent research has shown that a direct payment may increase production and …

Recent analyses suggest that the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on developing
countries will be very uneven. The Doha Round focuses on tariff issues, but some …