Evaluating the spatial spillover effects of transportation infrastructure on agricultural output across the United States

Tong, Tingting; Yu, Tun‐Hsiang; Cho, Seong‐Hoon; Jensen, Kimberly L.; Ugarte, Daniel de la Torre

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2013.03.001

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“…In previous studies, the potential spatial spillover effect of transportation infrastructure on economic output in the US agricultural sector has not been properly taken into account given the sector's importance in the economy and dependence on transportation. The results of Tong and other researchers suggest that road disbursement in a given state has positive direct effects on its agricultural output [10]. Based upon the China Health and Nutrition Survey, a multivariate analysis demonstrated that the migration of household members increased the time spent on farm work and domestic work by the remaining elderly and children [11].…”

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The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences

Guancheng

Wen

Jing-juan

2015

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Chinese agriculture is facing an aging workforce which could negatively impact the industry. In this context, research is needed on how work preferences and age of farmers affect agricultural output. This paper attempts to investigate these factors to more fully understand the impact of an aging agricultural labor population on agricultural production. The results show that, in this context of aging, changes in the working-age households have a significant impact on agricultural output. Despite the fact that the impacts of intention to abandon land management were not significant, we can ignore this preference in the workforce. The combination of changes in the composition of the working-age households indicates that 58.53 percent of the agricultural producers will likely quit. This is a potential threat for the future of agricultural development. We also found that elderly farmers who do not intend to abandon farming had higher agricultural output compared to other farmers. This indicates that the adverse effects of changes in the agricultural population age result more from the agricultural output of older farmers who intend to give up farming. This intention adversely affected other elements and reduced investment. Therefore, various forms of training should increase efforts to cultivate modern professional farmers and policies should be simultaneously developed to increase agricultural production levels.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences

Guancheng

Wen

Jing-juan

2015

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…The range of the methods measuring the effects of infrastructure investment on economic growth varies widely among studies (see Table 1). The most common approach is to develop a production function type model in which transportation infrastructure is treated as an important input to production (Aschauer, 1989;Evans, 1994;Gillen, 1996;Berechman et al, 2006;Ozbay et al, 2007;Liu, 2010;Tong, 2013). Since Aschauer (1989) found the evidence that the transportation stock reduced the costs of transportation and contributed to economic growth as well as that of private labor and capital inputs.…”

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Impact of high-speed railroad on regional income inequalities in China and Korea

Jiang

Kim

2016

International Journal of Urban Sciences

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of opening high speed railroad (HSR) on the regional income inequalities in China and Korea. The convergence models are applied to test the effect of the HSR on regional growth in terms of GRDP per capita across 455 cities and counties along the Beijing-Shanghai HSR corridor and 112 cities and counties along the Seoul-Busan HSR corridor respectively. The results indicate that at national level, a trend of convergence emerges during the three-year period of analysis in both China and Korea. The results indicate that at national level, a trend of convergence emerges during the ii three-year period of analysis in both China and Korea. At the HSR passing area level, HSR contributes to accelerate regional economic convergence and reduce the regional income disparities in China and Korea. However, HSR has different impacts on reducing the regional income inequalities in China and Korea considering the HSR station cities; in Korea, the regional inequality is rather wider among the cities where HSR station located.

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“…Papers on transport development generally emphasise the positive impacts of transport facilities in aggregated terms that can lower transport costs and improve accessibility (Gallup et al, 1999;Limao and Venables, 2001;Harringan and Venables, 2006;Behrens et al, 2009;Jiwittanakulpaisarn et al, 2010;Li and Li, 2013;Tong et al, 2013;Park and Seo, 2016). According to some of the economic geography literature, lower transport costs influence the production decisions of a firm as well as the spatial division of production (Krugman, 1980;Beckmann and Thisse, 1986;Behrens and Picard, 2011).…”

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Spatial effects of container ports on production of the leather, bag and shoe industry in Korea

Park¹,

Medda²

2018

IJSTL

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Container port operations are widely regarded as being beneficial to regional economies, particularly in aggregated terms. The present paper examines this common knowledge in the specific case of the leather, bag and shoe industry in Korea. The authors use two panel datasets of the industry, one dataset of 16 regions and the other dataset of enduring establishments from 1991 to 2011. In our analysis with panel data of the regions, the authors find that an increase of container throughput in ports affects production of the industry positively during the examined period. When dividing the examined period into two periods, the authors observe the negative effects during the period before 2003 and primarily in the groups of regions without large ports. The panel data model of enduring establishments presents a negative coefficient of port throughput on production. The contradictory results may be caused by the characteristics of the two different panels.

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Evaluating the spatial spillover effects of transportation infrastructure on agricultural output across the United States

Cited by 92 publications

References 36 publications

The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences

The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences

Impact of high-speed railroad on regional income inequalities in China and Korea

Spatial effects of container ports on production of the leather, bag and shoe industry in Korea

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