This article analyzes the revolutionary impact the tractor had on rural America and examines the economic, technological, and institutional factors governing the machine s diffusion. Our simultaneous-equation regression model helps decipher the complex relationship between farm scale and diffusion. In addition, analyzing diffusion as a capital replacement problem reveals that the shift to the new technology was far more rapid than what has generally been thought and provides a new perspective on the long co-existence of both horses and tractors on farms.
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Volume (Year): 61 (2001) Issue (Month): 03 (September) Pages: 663-698 Download reference. The following formats are available: HTML
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