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Title: The Role of Formalized Education in Agricultural Production: An Analysis of Heartland Region Corn Yield, Farm Earnings, and Off-farm Labor Mobility, 1970-2000

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: Education's role in agricultural production is commonly underestimated when compared to other sectors of the economy, yet the economical implications of formalized schooling on the farm have long been studied. In this thesis it is suggested that educational attainment has, indeed, long been a contributing factor in farming output, earnings, and labor mobility. More specifically, knowledge and skill have been instrumental dynamics of the differentiation amongst output, income, and transferability. The supply of educated farm youth and the demand for their labor have shifted throughout the twentieth century as they have been shaped by institutional support and technological advancement. The last thirty years of the century in America's most prolific farming region, the Heartland, reveals a landscape where formalized education, while universally offered, maintains specific value on and off the farm. However, a notable contradiction may exist between the respective roles of secondary and tertiary schooling, and all relationships involving any level of educational attainment are prone to changes over time.

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Authors: Mineo, Justin

Institution: Lund University

Department: Economic Growth, Innovation and Spatial Dynamics

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Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Education

Countries: Sweden, United States