The model for analyzing the impact of the Food Stamp Program on food purchased for use at home indicates that no continuous relationship exists between at-home food expenditures and income of food stamp participant households As previous studies have not allowed for this fact, they may have...

Households participating in the Food Stamp Program increased their food expenditures an average of 10 percent Their food-at-home expenditures rose 19 percent while food-away-from-home expenditures declined 36 percent Increases occurred for cereal and dairy products, eggs, nonalcoholic beverages,...

Measures of per capita dollar incomes seem, at first hand, to be a good simple first approximation to obtaining some idea of the differences that exist between farmers' living standards and those of nonfarmers at any one point in time. But unfortunately, the following factors, among others, make...

This study applies the logic of queuing thcory to the availability of hospital services in a ruraloriented. multicounty planning district in northwestern lower Michigan. The seven hospitals in the area had 611 beds and provided services for 489 patient-days in 1 year. The study found that the...

This article presents newly developed national estimates of average income, per farm and per person in the farm family, for each economic class of farm in 1949. Aggregates and averages of farm income and expenditures are published regularly in considerable detail in The Farm Income Situation....

The problem of allocating farm income among the factors of production has long received the attention of agricultural economists. Progress toward a satisfactory solution has been impeded, both by difficult conceptual problems and by lack of adequate statistical data. In the following article,...

Direct Government payments increase income in the farm sector by redistributing income from nonfarm to farm people. Direet payments arc largest at high income levels. Thus, low-income farm famifies may not benefit greatly from these payments. However, data compiled by the Internal Revenue...

Net farm income has shown a generally downward trend since the postwar highs of 1947 and 1948. Even with allowance for nonfarm sources of income and for declining numbers of farms, average farm family income has lagged behind the steadily rising levels of nonfarm family incomes. But the farmer...

Farm families have historically had lower money incomes and a less equal distribution of money income than nonfarm families. However, when net worth was included in a measure of economic well-being for farm families, the median level increased and inequality in the distribution decreased. The...