networks. We first study 75 villages in Karnataka, 43 of which were exposed to microfinance after we first collected detailed …

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by …

Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US …, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has … been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot irrigation systems (CPIS) installations since 1988. Specifically, we …

We examine constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda. We … leverage a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry season … horticultural production, which boosts on-farm cash profits by 70%. Second, adoption is constrained: access to irrigation causes …

Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …