@article{Erickson:10207,
      recid = {10207},
      author = {Erickson, Kenneth W. and Moss, Charles B. and Mishra,  Ashok K.},
      title = {Farm Wealth Inequality Within and Across States in the  United States},
      journal = {Agricultural and Resource Economics Review},
      address = {2006-10},
      number = {1203-2016-95293},
      pages = {14},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {This paper uses Theil's (1979) entropy-based measure of  inequality and farm-level data to
examine changes in farm  business wealth (farm equity) of farm households. The farms  associated
with farm households are grouped by state into  ten regions of the United States. The Theil entropy measure  is then calculated and used to decompose total inequality  of farm wealth into within-state and across-states (between  states) inequalities for each region. Results show that  since the enactment of the 1996 Federal Agricultural  Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act, inequality in farm  wealth among farms within a state has decreased relative to  the number of farms per state, across all regions. Further,  most of the reduction in farm wealth inequality is  attributed to increased equality in the distribution of  real estate assets of the farm
households, a major  component of farm wealth.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10207},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.10207},
}