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Measures of Economic Status - Combining Income and Wealth into a Single Measure of the Potential Command Over Goods and Services

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The purpose of this paper is to stimulate discussion on the way that economists, statisticians and analysts treat the wealth of agricultural households and changes in that wealth not arising from production. The concept of "economic status" is revisited and the implications of using it when making comparisons of agricultural households with other groups in society is reviewed. A more explicit treatment of capital and wealth is proposed.

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  • Hill, Berkeley, 2002. "Measures of Economic Status - Combining Income and Wealth into a Single Measure of the Potential Command Over Goods and Services," Workshop on the Farm Household-Firm Unit: Its Importance in Agriculture and Implications for Statistics, April 12-13,2002, Wye Campus, Imperial College 15715, International Agricultural Policy Reform and Adjustment Project (IAPRAP).
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:iapr02:15715
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.15715
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    2. Hisham S. El‐Osta & Ashok K. Mishra & Mitchell J. Morehart, 2007. "Determinants of economic well‐being among U.S. farm operator households," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 36(3), pages 291-304, May.

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