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Center Pivot Irrigation Systems as a Form of Drought Risk Mitigation in Humid Regions
Cooley, Daniel J.; Smith, Steven M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
aquifers after droughts. Additionally, counties with a higher presence of CPIS do not have higher average crop yields, a shift …
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Estimating the Effect of Easements on Agricultural Production
Karwowski, Nicole - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
yields on surrounding cropland. I use national USDA data from the past three decades to build a county-level panel. I employ … a regression model with two-way fixed effects to quantify how easement land share impacts yields, risk, as well as acres … planted, failed, and prevented planted. A 100% increase in land share of wetland easements increases yields by 0.34%, 0 …
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Agricultural Crises and Government Responses Between the World Wars in the Atlantic Trading Network
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The paper summarizes research on the heterogeneous experiences of actors in agriculture in Europe and the Americas between the First and Second World Wars. Following a period of increasing globalization of agricultural markets, the First World War sharply limited farming in the main combatant...
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Measuring Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture : An Equilibrium Perspective on Supply-Side Approaches
Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A popular approach for estimating climate change impacts on agriculture is to rely on supply-side reduced-form regressions. These methods, which include the Ricardian approach, focus on how farmers and agricultural land market react to changes in climatic conditions, under the implicit...
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The Institutional Costs of Adaptation : Agricultural Drainage in the United States
Edwards, Eric C.; Thurman, Walter N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Tile drainage was first demonstrated in the United States in 1835 as a method to adapt agriculture to excessive water in soils. Subsequently, innovations in coordinated drainage enterprises, engineering, and tile manufacture led to drainage over large portions of the U.S. Midwest and Southeast....
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Cooling Externality of Large-Scale Irrigation
Braun, Thomas; Schlenker, Wolfram - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
distribution by up to 3C (5F) during the month of August, which has positive externalities on downwind crop yields ($120 million …
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Weather, Climate, and Technology Adoption : An Application to Drought-Tolerant Corn in the United States
McFadden, Jonathan R.; Smith, David; Wallander, Steven - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Crop farmers have few short-run options for reducing downside production risk from changes in drought frequency and intensity due to ongoing climate change. However, one recently available option is drought-tolerant (DT) varieties. We determine how recent drought exposure, drought risk, and...
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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua; Callen, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
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Food Policy in a Warming World
Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
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Pace of Adoption of Alternatives to Animal-Source Foods and Climate Goals
Hale, Galina; Onescu, Vlad; Bhangale, Ritesh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The global food system is an important contributor to greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change. Animal … agriculture is responsible for a large share of the food-system emissions, both directly and through the production of animal feed … a substantial share of animal-source food. We show that the rapid adoption of alternatives to animal-source foods, such …
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