agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers' access to groundwater. Comparing counties over the Ogallala with …

, technological improvements made groundwater from the Ogallala aquifer available for irrigation. Comparing counties over the Ogallala … with nearby similar counties, groundwater access increased irrigation intensity and initially reduced the impact of …

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 …

groundwater basins using a new dataset to identify factors that influence the adoption of extraction controls. In 309 basins … severely overdrafted. Meanwhile, users in 31 basins have defined groundwater property rights, the most complete solution. We …

adhere to the prescribed schedule use more water than those following a more flexible irrigation pattern. For our application …

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 …