Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Heterogeneous Yield Impacts from Adoption of Genetically Engineered Corn and the Importance of Controlling for Weather 11
6. 2. Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Weather on US Agricultural Productivity: Evidence and Projection 41
7. 3. Farming under Weather Risk: Adaptation, Moral Hazard, and Selection on Moral Hazard 77
8. 4. Intranational Trade Costs, Reallocation, and Technical Change: Evidence from a Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Reform 125
9. 5. Electricity Prices, Groundwater, and Agriculture: The Environmental and Agricultural Impacts of Electricity Subsidies in India 157
10. 6. Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa 185
11. 7. Crop Disease and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model of Verticillium Wilt Management 217
12. 8. Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Foods during Drought 251
13. Contributors 293
14. Author Index 297
15. Subject Index 303