, 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 …

Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as … consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical estimates of how farmers respond to changes in groundwater costs … variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive …

their effectiveness remains elusive. We develop a model of dynamic groundwater extraction to demonstrate how a spatial …

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 …

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

This paper proposes a Bayesian method of performance evaluation for investment managers. We begin with a flexible set …