期刊
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
卷 183, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106946
关键词
Sequences of outcomes; Agri-environmental schemes; Discounted utility; Farming practices; Cover crops; Choice experiment
资金
- European Regional Development Fund of the European Union (grant AAP READYNOV 2017/POLLDIFF CAPTAGE from Region Occitanie)
Most Agri-Environmental Schemes offer farmers stable annual payments, but some mechanisms may incline farmers to prefer an increasing payment sequence. However, a choice experiment survey showed that farmers mostly do not want to depart from the usual stable payments, with a significant aversion to decreasing payments in farmers with a lower discount rate and higher risk tolerance.
Nearly all Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES) offer farmers stable annual payments over the duration of the contract. Yet AES are often intended to be a transition tool, thus decreasing payment sequences would appear particularly attractive for farmers. The standard discounted utility model supports this notion by predicting that individuals will prefer a decreasing sequence of payments if the total sum of outcomes is constant. Nevertheless, the literature shows that numerous mechanisms, such as increasing productivity, anticipatory pleasure and loss aversion can incline farmers to favor an increasing sequence of payments. To understand what drives farmers? preferences for different payment sequences, we propose a review of the mechanisms highlighted by the liter-ature in psychology and economics. We then analyze farmers? preferences for stable, increasing or decreasing payments through a choice experiment (CE) survey of 123 French farmers, about 15% of those contacted. Overall, farmers do not present a clear willingness to depart from the usual stable payments. Moreover, we find a significant aversion to decreasing payments in farmers with a lower discount rate and in those more willing to take risks than the median farmer, contradicting the discounted utility model.
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