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The Impact of Weather on Agricultural Labor Supply

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Author	Lee, Jaehyuk Nadolnyak, Denis A. Hartarska, Valentina
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Recent work shows that the weather affects U.S. labor productivity and supply (e.g., Deryugina and Hsiang, 2016). Although agricultural economists have identified factors that affect farmers’ allocation of labor between on- and off- farm work, they have not related labor supply to weather. We estimate the impact of temperature and precipitation on individual on-farm labor supply using 10 years of the Agricultural Resource Management Survey data. We find that temperature and farm operator labor supply have a parabolic relationship with a minimum at 61oF. We compute that one 1oF increase in annual temperature translates into 8.5 million hours of reduced country-wide farm operator labor valued at about $188 million. Precipitation has a significant but negligible marginal impact on the operator labor supply, consistent with the existing literature.
Related Links	http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/302505/files/LeeWeather.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3104156
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3104156
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2017-01-17
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Agricultural Economics Labor Supply
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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