DEMAND FOR AN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION IN THE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Academic Article

abstract

• Undergraduate enrollments in the agricultural and natural resource sciences (AGNR) declined during the 1980s. The present study sought to analyze factors affecting the drop in demand for an AGNR education. Two time-serics pooled models were employed: a household production function (HPF) variant and a Mincerian human capital form. The HPF variant offers the empirical advantage of a price expression that accounts for changes in AGNR demand beyond significant wealth, structural, regional, and gender effects. High opportunity costs of AGNR careers stalled demand during the 1980s-a problem that may persist for some AGNR career areas. 1994 American Agricultural Economics Association.

authors

• Capps, Oral

published proceedings

• AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

author list (cited authors)

• THOMPSON, R. P., CAPPS, O., & MASSEY, J. G.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• THOMPSON, RP||CAPPS, O||MASSEY, JG

publication date

• May 1994

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• American Journal of Agricultural Economics  Journal

keywords

• Education Demand
• Enrollments
• Local Price
• Opportunity Costs
• Time-series

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2307/1243632

start page

• 303

end page

• 312

volume

• 76

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1243632