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Abstract
Traditional models in the agricultural labor literature have examined
agricultural labor supply in terms of a labor-lei sure trade-off by a single
individual. This work examines the question of total annual market days
in farm and nonfarm work of secondary family workers engaged in hired
farm work. The underlying model is one of home production-consumption.
A trade-off of market days between wife and older children in a family is
hypothesized. Empirical results are mixed, generally supporting a tradeoff
in the supply of market days in a family between nonstudents and
wives, but not between students and wives.