| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w30080 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 30080 |
| Producer Beliefs and Conservation: The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption | |
| Joey Blumberg; Chris Goemans; Dale Manning | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-05-30 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Agricultural producers make investment decisions based on beliefs about future returns. This article investigates how changes in beliefs about input availability affects the adoption of conservation practices. We develop a theoretical model to examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then use publicly available data on water rights and irrigated cropland to empirically identify the impact of changing beliefs about water availability on conservation decisions. We leverage a natural experiment in Colorado in which a period of severe drought and institutional change in the early 2000s led to an exogenous shock to expectations for some water right holders. We estimate that producers who experience unprecedented increases in the curtailment of their water right convert 11% more land to a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by changes in surface water availability than groundwater. This analysis provides useful insight into the role of beliefs in incentivizing adaptation to increasing water scarcity in irrigated agriculture. |
| 主题 | Environmental and Resource Economics ; Agriculture ; Renewable Resources ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30080 |
| 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/587754 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joey Blumberg,Chris Goemans,Dale Manning. Producer Beliefs and Conservation: The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption. 2022. |
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| w30080.pdf（2335KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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