Abstract
This paper estimates a Ricardian model of farmland value across the counties of the semiarid Southwestern United States. Compared to previous contributions, we focus on one climate zone and include the presence of extreme weather events and of farm subsidies in our analysis. We also control for heterogeneity and for various types of spillover effects. Once calibrated, the model is used to project changes due to future climate conditions. We find that the probability of a decrease is great in highland counties while an increase or decrease is equally probable in lowland counties where climate impacts farmland value less.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 46-66 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Spatial Economic Analysis |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2 2016 |
Keywords
- Farmland
- climate change
- spatial econometrics
- spillovers
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)