Peckham, Janet G.; Kropp, Jaclyn D. - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 41 (2012) 2
that decoupled payments had little impact on agricultural chemical expenditures (our proxy for use) when the payments were … first introduced in 1996. However, after 2004 there is a positive, significant relationship between decoupled payments and … caused decoupled payments to become coupled to current input use and, ultimately, production. …