Risk preferences and pesticide use by cotton farmers in China

By Elaine M. Liu, Jikun Huang. 2013

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Pesticide use and risk perceptions among farmers in the cotton belt of Punjab, Pakistan (2015, background): “Also, farmers who are more risk averse tend to use greater quantities of pesticides (Liu and Huang, 2013), namely they show a tendency towards pesticide overuse.”
• Factors preventing the adoption of alternatives to chemical pest control among Pakistani cotton farmers (2015, background): “Farmers’ perceptions of pesticide risk are known to influence behavior toward pesticide use (Dasgupta et al. 2005a; Parveen et al. 2008; Damalas & Hashemi 2010; Hashemi & Damalas 2010; Hashemi et al. 2012; Liu & Huang 2013).”
• The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2015, background): “For example, Malmendier and Nagel (2011) and Fisman, Jakiela, and Kariv (2015) show that exposure to economic downturns makes people more risk averse and more efficiency-focused, respectively; while Eckel, El-Gamal, and Wilson (2009), Cameron and Shah (2013), and Hanaoka, Shigeoka, and Watanabe (201”
• Farmers’ risk preferences and pesticide use decisions: evidence from field experiments in China (2016, unknown): “Thus, addressing the problem of farmer’s overuse or misuse of agricultural pesticides is a major challenge faced by China (Huang et al., 2003; Chen et al., 2013; Liu and Huang, 2013).”
• Information, trust and pesticide overuse: Interactions between retailers and cotton farmers in China (2015, result): “…education, and 28.1% had a senior high-school education The distribution in the sample is similar to that of other survey samples in rural China [43–45 The average age of the household heads was 48 years, with the youngest being 25 years old and the oldest 83 years old Many of the heads had…”
• Expected utility or prospect theory maximisers? Assessing farmers' risk behaviour from field-experiment data (2014, background): “In a recent study, Liu and Huang (2013) highlighted the significant role of loss aversion in explaining pesticide use by Chinese cotton farmers by combining experimental measures with survey results.”
• Measuring Farmer Risk Preferences in Europe: A Systematic Review (2019, background): “However, these concepts are unobservable and extremely difficult to measure (for example, as more recent examples, Gardebroek, 2006; Liu and Huang, 2013; Trujillo-Barrera et al., 2016).”
• Pesticide Use and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Agricultural Water Pollution in China (2017, background): “…levels for crop insurance and for funding farmers’ pesticide training programs given that previous studies show that risk aversion surrounding farm production outcomes and the lack of pesticide knowledge contribute to overuse of pesticides (Chen, Huang and Qiao 2013; Liu and Huang 2013).”