Farmers Market Locations and Their Determinants: An Empirical Analysis in New England

After a strong expansion across the United States, farmers markets’ (FMs) growth rate has declined in spite of policymakers’ interest in promoting them. In this study we model farmers’ participation in FMs and investigate what market factors affect FMs’ location using zip-code-level data for the New England states. Our results suggest that market size, education, presence of children in the household and SNAP participation lend to the establishment of FMs, more than income per se. Farming activities has a positive association with the likelihood of FMs, while proxies for establishment costs and the presence of traditional distribution channels may play a limiting role in their formation.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

• Publication date

  2017-08-09

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Business, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1017/age.2016.43
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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