abstract: 'Government interventions in the agricultural sector have been

  historically justified by the existence of an income disparity between

  farmers and non-farmers. However, recent studies have found that such

  disparity is disappearing over time, particularly in the United States.

  This work offers the first longitudinal systematic assessment on the

  average income disparity between farm and non-farm units in the European

  Union, differentiating between old and new Member States. Using the

  EU-SILC dataset, both broad (having some farm income) and narrow (living

  mainly on agriculture) farm households are compared with a general

  sample of non-farm households and a more restricted sample of

  self-employed non-farm households. To control for household observable

  characteristics and time-constant unobserved factors, we use a fixed

  effects regression. Results suggest that the farm/non-farm income

  disparity has disappeared in the European Union unless we compare narrow

  farm households with all non-farm households: in this case, the former

  are more likely to be better off than the latter. A limited income

  disparity is found only in the case of new Member States for broad farm

  households only. Results are used to draw policy implications regarding

  the role of CAP in supporting farm income.'
affiliation: 'Marino, M (Corresponding Author), UAB, Dept Appl Econ, Barcelona, Spain.

  Marino, Maria, UAB, Dept Appl Econ, Barcelona, Spain.

  Rocchi, Benedetto, Univ Florence, Dept Econ \& Management, Florence, Italy.

  Severini, Simone, Univ Tuscia, Dept Agr \& Forestry Sci, Viterbo, Italy.'
author: Marino, Maria and Rocchi, Benedetto and Severini, Simone
author-email: maria.-marino@uab.cat
author_list:
- family: Marino
  given: Maria
- family: Rocchi
  given: Benedetto
- family: Severini
  given: Simone
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/1477-9552.12420
earlyaccessdate: JAN 2021
eissn: 1477-9552
files: []
issn: 0021-857X
journal: JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
keywords: 'agricultural households; common agricultural policy; European Union;

  EU-SILC; income'
keywords-plus: 'AGRICULTURAL POLICY; INEQUALITY; TAIL; INDICATORS; REGRESSION; VALUES;

  GOALS'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '57'
orcid-numbers: 'marino, maria/0000-0002-3820-1567

  Rocchi, Benedetto/0000-0002-7545-3093

  Marino, Maria/0000-0002-3820-1567

  SEVERINI, Simone/0000-0001-5501-3552'
pages: 589-606
papis_id: 9e228e2db15f142246e8866479b6fb03
ref: Marino2021conditionalincome
researcherid-numbers: 'marino, maria/AAP-4017-2021

  Rocchi, Benedetto/C-1677-2013

  Marino, Maria/HIR-3974-2022

  SEVERINI, Simone/A-6944-2017'
times-cited: '8'
title: 'Conditional Income Disparity between Farm and Non-farm Households in the European
  Union: A Longitudinal Analysis'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000608693500001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '20'
volume: '72'
web-of-science-categories: Agricultural Economics \& Policy; Economics
year: '2021'