Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach

By W. Schlenker, William Michael Hanemann, A. Fisher, R. Mendelsohn, William Nordhaus, D. Shaw. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Ocean Engineering, Soil Science

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Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture (2016, neutral): “…that average climate is not correlated with other unobserved factors (soil quality, labor productivity, etc) that also affect outcomes of interest (Schlenker, Hanemann, and Fisher, 2005; Deschênes and Greenstone, 2007), and that farmers recognize that they have experienced a shift in climate and…”
Risk, Cooperation and the Economic origins of social Trust: an empirical Investigation (2009, neutral): “…the impact of climate on various aspects of human activity including agricultural productivity (Adams et al., 1990; Mendelsohn et al., 1994; Schlenker et al., 2005), health (Curriero et al., 2002; Deschenes and Moretti, 2007; Gallup and Sachs, 2001) and conflict (Miguel et al., 2004).3…”
The Use of Panel Models in Assessments of Climate Impacts on Agriculture (2017, background): “Similarly, access to subsidized irrigation water is capitalized into farmland values and this access is correlated with hotter temperatures (Schlenker et al. 2005).”
The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions (2004, neutral): “The economic implications of the distinction between dryland and irrigated farming are discussed in detail by Cline (1996), Darwin (1999), and Schlenker et al. (2003), and will be summarized briefly here.”
The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: Nonlinear Effects and Aggregation Bias in Ricardian Models of Farmland Values (2013, methodology): “Findings reported by Schlenker et al. (2006) suggest that a log-transformation of the dependent variable outperforms a linear specification, since the distribution of land values is nonnegative and typically highly skewed.”
Climate change adaptation and water resource management: A review of the literature (2014, background): “Studies also show that irrigation adoption is sensitive to environmental conditions (Dinar et al., 1992; Schlenker et al., 2005).”
Empirical studies on agricultural impacts and adaptation (2014, background): “For example, Schlenker et al. (2005) show that access to highly subsidized irrigation water is positively correlated with hotter temperatures.”
Estimating the Impact of Drought on Agriculture Using the U.S. Drought Monitor (2018, neutral): “…choice of a 15 percent cutoff for the proportion of harvested cropland that is irrigated is consistent with definitions of irrigated and non-irrigated counties in previous studies, which use cutoffs that range from 5 percent to 20 percent [Schlenker et al., 2005; Deschênes and Greenstone, 2007].”
Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to U.S. crop yields under climate change (2009, background): “‡Because access to subsidized water rights is correlated with climate, omitting these variables, which vary on the subcounty level of irrigation districts, will result in biased coefficient estimates on the climatic variables in a cross-sectional analysis (18).”
Only One Tree from Each Seed? Environmental Effectiveness and Poverty Alleviation in Mexico's Payments for Ecosystem Services Program (2015, background): “…carbon emissions reduction policies (Martin, De Preux, and Warner 2011, Li, Linn, and Spiller 2013, Davis, Fuchs, and Gertler 2014) is increasingly important given the expected negative social impacts of climate change (Schlenker, Hanemann, and Fisher 2005, Tol 2009, Dell, Jones, and Olken 2012).”