Microeconomics
Microeconomics
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781260507140
Author: David C. Colander
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 8.W, Problem 4QAP

(a)

To determine

The reason for farm families that have traditionally passed on the family farm to sons rather than daughters.

(b)

To determine

The way in which daughters are treated in many families.

(c)

To determine

The reason for an increasing women ownership of small farms in recent times.

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