Family Composition and Off‐Farm Participation Decisions in Israeli Farm Households
研究以色列农户中，家庭人口构成（特别是成年子女数量）如何影响农场主及其配偶的离农就业行为，发现成年子女越多，父母越少外出工作。
This article studies the relationship between the off‐farm participation behavior of farm operators and their spouses and the demographic composition of the household. We focus on farm families without parents, siblings or partners, and examine the effects of the existence of elderly children of the farm couple. We find that both the father and the mother tend to reduce their participation in off‐farm work as the number of elderly children rises. This result holds even after controlling for observed characteristics. We also find that the effect of elderly children stems from considerations related to both farm production and household production.