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Title: Have Robots Taken All of Our Jobs Before? The Case of Mechanization in US Agriculture

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: I investigate the medium-and long-run effects of tractor adoption on local labor markets and individual farmers. Using crop mix as an instrument for tractor adoption, I find that for each farm resident susceptible to tractor exposure as of 1910, 0.4 farm residents had moved off the farm by 1930 and 0.5 had moved off by 1940. Simultaneously , manufacturing employment grew by 0.2 jobs for each susceptible farm resident. To investigate long run consequences for individual farmers,

Url: https://events.berkeley.edu/documents/user_uploads/Eisner_Tractors_Aug2019.pdf

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Authors: Eisner, Emily

Publisher: University of California Berkeley

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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