Does land consolidation promote livestock production and combat rural depopulation in northern Spain?
This paper evaluates the effect on livestock productionand rural population of the land consolidation (LC) pro-cesses that occurred over recent decades in Asturias, anautonomous region located in north-west Spain. We usea novel Difference-in-Difference (DiD) model which al-lows for multiple LCs at d...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/712888 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/712888 https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12587 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Agricultural Land Consolidation Livestock Production Rural Depopulation DiD Economía |
| Resumo: | This paper evaluates the effect on livestock productionand rural population of the land consolidation (LC) pro-cesses that occurred over recent decades in Asturias, anautonomous region located in north-west Spain. We usea novel Difference-in-Difference (DiD) model which al-lows for multiple LCs at different points in time and forspatial spill-overs. As many parishes have been involvedin two or more LC processes, we test whether we can sim-plify our analysis using a specification for these parishesthat accumulates the effect of consecutive, and often dis-tant, LC processes. We find that this simplification canbe implemented when we analyse the effect of the LC pro-cesses on parishes' livestock production, but not when weexamine their effects on parish population. We find thatparish livestock production increases on average by about3% once we take into account spatial effects, and that LCprocesses have especially attenuated the decline in thenumber of farms in (coastal) parishes where dairy farmspredominate. We do not find strong evidence regardingthe effectiveness of LC processes in redressing rural de-population, except in some of the parishes located in west-ern Asturias |
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