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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 85, Issue 2, Pages 305-317Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8276.00121
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nitrogen runoff; risk preferences; spatial variability; technology adoption; uncertainty
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A model of farmer decision making is developed to determine the extent to which uncertainties about soil fertility and weather affect the value of site-specific technologies (SSTs) using jointly estimated risk and technology parameters. Uncertainty can lead risk-averse farmers to apply more fertilizers and generate more pollution than in the certainty case. Ignoring uncertainty and risk aversion would overestimate the economic and environmental benefits of SSTs and underestimate the subsidy required to induce adoption. Accounting for uncertainties and risk preferences might explain the low observed adoption rates of SSTs. Improving the accuracy of SSTs would increase the incentives for adoption.
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