Zhengfei, Guan; Lansink, Alfons Oude; Wossink, Ada; … - In: European Review of Agricultural Economics 32 (2005) 2, pp. 167-189
The economic literature on pest control exclusively assumes a non-negative marginal product of pesticides based on a monotonic non-decreasing function of damage abatement, which may bias pesticide productivity estimates. This paper proposes a specification that allows for a negative marginal...