Education and economic performance of occidental and oriental family farm operators

This article is an attempt to evaluate the relative effect of sociological and economic factors on economic performance of occidental and oriental family farm operators in Israel. Unusual circumstances prevail in Israel, where farm operators with modern and traditional backgrounds co-exist within a modern economy. This setting allows us to evaluate the effect of the human factor under conditions of relative independence from the organizational set-up. Economic performance has been found to be closely associated with the level of formal schooling, status of women, degree of literacy and family size.