| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w28706 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 28706 |
| Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice | |
| Fiona Burlig; Louis Preonas; Matt Woerman | |
| 发表日期 | 2021-04-26 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns—as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability—increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical estimates of how farmers respond to changes in groundwater costs in one of the world's most valuable agricultural areas: California. Using rich administrative data and exogenous variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive: we estimate large price elasticities of demand for electricity (-1.17) and groundwater (-1.12). We demonstrate that crop switching and fallowing are the main channel through which farmers respond to increases in groundwater costs. Using a static discrete choice model, we estimate that a counterfactual $10 per-acre-foot groundwater tax—a level consistent with California's sustainability targets—would lead farmers to reallocate 3.9 percent of cropland, with increases in fallowing and high-value fruit and nut perennials, and decreases in annual crops and low-value perennials. |
| 主题 | Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture ; Renewable Resources ; Energy |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w28706 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586379 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Fiona Burlig,Louis Preonas,Matt Woerman. Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice. 2021. |
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| w28706.pdf（3542KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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