TY  - JOUR
AU  - Brown, Mark
AU  - Ferguson, Shon M
AU  - Viju, Crina
TI  - Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change: Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 23857
PY  - 2017
Y2  - September 2017
DO  - 10.3386/w23857
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23857
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23857.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Mark Brown
Statistics Canada
Ottawa, Canada
E-Mail: mark.brown@statcan.gc.ca

Shon M. Ferguson
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Stockholm, Sweden 
E-Mail: shon.ferguson@slu.se

Crina Viju-Miljusevic
Institute of European, Russian and
Eurasian Studies
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
E-Mail: crina.viju@carleton.ca
M1  - published as Mark Brown, Shon M. Ferguson, Crina Viju-Miljusevic. "Intranational Trade Costs, Reallocation, and Technical Change: Evidence from a Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Reform," in Wolfram Schlenker, editor, "Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior" University of Chicago Press (2019)

M3  - presented at "Understanding Productivity Growth in Agriculture", May 11-12, 2017
AB  - We decompose the impact of trade reform on technology adoption and land use to study how aggregate changes were driven by reallocation versus within-farm adaptation. Using detailed census data covering over 30,000 farms in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new results. We find that the reform-induced shift from producing low-value to high-value crops for export, the adoption of new seeding technologies and reduction in summerfallow observed at the aggregate level between 1991 and 2001 were driven mainly by the within-farm effect. In the longer run, however, reallocation of land from shrinking and exiting farms to growing and new farms explains more than half of the aggregate changes in technology adoption and land use between 1991 and 2011.
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