A Joint Framework for Analysis of Agri-Environmental Payment Programs
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This paper presents an approach for simultaneously estimating farmers’ decisions to accept incentive payments in return for adopting a bundle of environmentally benign management practices. Using the results of a multinomial probit analysis of surveys of over 1,000 farmers facing ten adoption decisions in an EQIP-type program, we show how the farmers’ perceptions of the desirability of various bundles changes with the offer amounts and with which practices are offered in the program.
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