The Effects of Crop Insurance Subsidies and Sodsaver on Land-Use Change

dc.contributor.author Miao, Ruiqing
dc.contributor.author Hennessy, David
dc.contributor.author Feng, Hongli
dc.contributor.author Hennessy, David
dc.contributor.department Economics
dc.contributor.department Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
dc.date 2021-08-03T14:11:09.000
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dc.date.copyright Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2016
dc.date.issued 2016-05-01
dc.description.abstract <p>It is well known that insurance market information asymmetry can cause socially excessive cropping of yield-risky land. We show that crop insurance subsidies can cause the same problem absent information failures. Using field-level yield data, we find an inversed U-shaped relationship between crop prices and crop insurance subsidies’ land-use impacts. For seventeen counties in the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region, simulations show that 0.05% to 3.3% (about 2,600 to 157,900 acres) of land under crop insurance would not have been converted from grassland had premium subsidies not existed. Land-use impacts of Sodsaver in the 2014 Farm Act are also quantified.</p>
dc.description.comments <p>This article is published as Miao, Ruiqing, David A. Hennessy, and Hongli Feng. "The effects of crop insurance subsidies and Sodsaver on land-use change." <em>Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics</em> 41 (2016): 247-265. doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.235189" target="_blank" title="DOI">10.22004/ag.econ.235189</a>. Posted with permission.</p>
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dc.subject.disciplines Agricultural and Resource Economics
dc.subject.disciplines Agriculture
dc.subject.disciplines Economic Policy
dc.subject.disciplines Insurance
dc.subject.keywords copula
dc.subject.keywords crop insurance
dc.subject.keywords grassland
dc.subject.keywords land use
dc.subject.keywords Sodsaver
dc.subject.keywords subsidy chasing
dc.title The Effects of Crop Insurance Subsidies and Sodsaver on Land-Use Change
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