Explaining the source of racial disparities in market facilitation program payments
利用农业普查数据，研究2018-2019年市场便利化计划中白人农场主与非白人农场主获得政府支付的差异，发现黑人农场主的差距主要源于农场规模，而美洲印第安人、亚裔等差距一半来自规模、一半来自地理位置和作物类型。
Abstract This paper provides new insights on the distribution of agricultural government payments by farm operator race and the sources of disparities. We use farm‐level data from the Census of Agriculture to estimate the payments each farm was eligible to receive from the 2018 and 2019 Market Facilitation Program. We find that farms with a White operator were eligible to receive significantly more payments than farms with a non‐White operator. Most of the disparity for farms with a Black operator is due to differences in average farm size, because there are few large farms with a Black operator. The disparities for farms with an American Indian, Asian, or Pacific Islander operator were roughly half due to farm size and half due to the location of these farms and the types of commodities they tend to produce.