Technical Change, Land Quality, and Income Distribution: A General Equilibrium Analysis
构建一个小型可计算一般均衡模型，分析农业技术进步对不同土地质量环境下要素偏向和收入分配的影响，发现技术变革的分配效应高度依赖于其要素偏向和土地质量差异。
Abstract This paper investigates the distributional effects of technical progress in agriculture. A small computable general equilibrium model is developed in which agricultural production occurs in two environments with fixed land resources of different quality. The analytical structure permits not only the rate but also the factor biases of technical change to differ between environments. Distributional results are generated for several classes of households distinguished both by their ownership of factors and by their consumption patterns. The results demonstrate that technical change produces distributional outcomes which are highly sensitive to its factor biases and to prior differences in land quality.