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Population adjustment and economic activity: Three studies

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  1. For a more complete report on this and other regression applied to the 1950 data for North Carolina, see G. S. Tolley and A. P. Varley, “A Pilot Study of Gross Migration,”The Farmer and Migration in the United States, Agricultural Policy Institute, North Carolina State College, Raleigh, 1961.

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  2. Gordon S. Sanford is undertaking analyses of gross migration along lines that have been described.

  3. See G. S. Tolley and H. W. Hjort, “Age-Mobility and Southern Farmer Skill—Looking Ahead for Area Development,”Journal of Farm Economics, February, 1963. Other studies that give attention to farmer age group cohorts are: Don Kanel, “Age Components of Decrease in Farm Numbers, North Central States, 1890–1954,”Journal of Farm Economics, May, 1961 and “Farm Adjustments by Age Groups, North Central States, 1950–1959,” Journal of Farm Economics, February, 1963, and Marion Clawson, “Aging Farmers and Agricultural Policy,”Journal of Farm Economics, February, 1963.

  4. Data on farm operators and rural farm males for census years by age groups are available to apply the analysis of this section to each of the 48 states. The analysis is ebing extended and applied at the present time by Warren E. Johnston.

  5. Edmund F. Jansen is initiating empirical research in connection with the model that has been described.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics at North Carolina State College, North Carolina, USA

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Tolley, G.S. Population adjustment and economic activity: Three studies. Papers of the Regional Science Association 11, 85–97 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01943197

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