Assessing the Economic Impacts of Pesticide Regulations Academic Article

abstract

• 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Economic impacts of pesticide regulations are assessed using five alternative methodologies. The regulations include crop supply-enhancing eradication programs and crop supply-decreasing pesticide bans. Alternative assessment methodologies differ regarding assumptions about market price and crop acreage adjustments. Results show that market and producer adjustments substantially impact conclusions about winners and losers from regulations, and estimated welfare effects can differ widely between the different methodologies. For small technological changes such as the hypothetical pendimethalin regulation, farm budgeting and sector modeling yield similar estimates. For more severe technological changeslike the boll weevil eradication programsimple budgeting approaches lead to a substantial bias.

authors

• Mccarl, Bruce

published proceedings

• AGRICULTURE-BASEL

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Schneider, U. A., Rasche, L., & McCarl, B. A.

citation count

• 3

complete list of authors

• Schneider, Uwe A||Rasche, Livia||McCarl, Bruce A

publication date

• April 2018

publisher

• MDPI  Publisher

published in

• Agriculture (Switzerland)  Journal

keywords

• Agricultural Sector Analysis
• Farm Income
• Insect Eradication
• Pest Control
• Pesticide Ban

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3390/agriculture8040053

start page

• 53

end page

• 53

volume

• 8

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture8040053