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Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Food Choices During Drought

Krovetz, Hannah - 2017

In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and...

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A National Estimate of Irrigation Canal Lining and Piping Water Conservation

Hrozencik, R. Aaron; Potter, Nicholas A.; Wallander, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential … to significantly reduce water losses. This study utilizes survey data from irrigation water delivery organizations in the …

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Cover Crops, Drought, Yield and Risk : an Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production

Dong, Fengxia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Besides a variety of production and environmental benefits, cover cropping has been advocated as a mean to increase resilience to drought. We explored factors influencing farmer's adoption of cover crops and examined the effects of cover crops on soybean yield and its risk using USDA's 2018 ARMS...

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Toilets Can Work : Short and Medium Run Health Impacts of Addressing Complementarities and Externalities in Water and Sanitation

Duflo, Esther - 2015

usage. This paper estimates the impact of an integrated water and sanitation improvement program in rural India that …

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Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment

Bau, Natalie; Khanna, Gaurav; Low, Corinne; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …

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Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2020

This paper studies the long-run effects of a "big-push" program providing a large asset transfer to the poorest Indian households. In a randomized controlled trial that follows these households over 10 years, we find positive effects on consumption (1 SD), food security (0.1 SD), income (0.3...

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Fiscal Rules in India : Are They Effective?

Buiter, Willem H. - 2010

, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts … concerning public debt and deficits in India, the background and basic arithmetic of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget …

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The Behavioralist as Policy Designer : The Need to Test Multiple Treatments to Meet Multiple Targets

Hahn, Robert - 2016

We explore Tinbergen's fundamental insight that policymakers need at least as many policy instruments as targets. We extend this idea using a large natural field experiment in water resource management. We use social comparisons and loss-framed messages to help achieve two goals of our partner...

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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice

Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...

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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-run and Long-run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

Hornbeck, Richard - 2012

Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...

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