and downstream farmers pump groundwater that is lost upstream. Groundwater emerges as an endogenous backstop. The … farmers switch from traditional to modern irrigation technology …

instance, when farmers adopt groundwater extraction technology, they need to learn their private marginal cost and marginal … owners with less experience (owners of new wells) with groundwater technology, extract more water than the experienced owners …. Employing panel data at the district level in a fixed-effects model, we find that groundwater extraction rises as the growth …

and downstream farmers pump groundwater that is lost upstream. Groundwater emerges as an endogenous "backstop." The … farmers switch from traditional to modern irrigation technology. …

irrigation techniques seem not to be contributing to reduce water scarcity and increase drought resiliency. In fact, according to … appear. This basic model is expected to serve as guidance for assessing the actual outcomes of increasing irrigation …

the global level. We develop a simple model establishing a positive link between the demand for irrigation water of … our model empirically using data on 243 irrigated crops exported by 183 countries, and find that countries’ irrigation …