Zimmert, Franziska; Zorn, Alexander - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 3, pp. 1-23
Direct payments are regarded as a suitable instrument to safeguard jobs in the agricultural sector. However, empirical … unobservables assumptions. The Swiss direct payments system creates a discontinuous jump near the border of agricultural production … zones for the amount of public subsidies a farm receives. Using two-stage least squares (TSLS) to estimate the policy …