@article{Field:283908, recid = {283908}, author = {Field, Barry C. and Allen, P. Geoffrey}, title = {SUBSIDIZATION OF AGRICULTURE lNURBANIZING REGIONS}, address = {1976-08}, number = {2178-2019-601}, pages = {16}, year = {1976}, abstract = {Conventional welfare principles are used to examine regional programs of agricultural protection, optimal subsidies are found to depend on the degree to which contractions in regional agricultural output are irreversible. A subsidy on the input that underlies the irreversibility, such as land, need be lower than one on output: generally, since it induces input substitutions, Income redistributions from consumers to producers are considered.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/283908}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.283908}, }