Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 10th Sept 2026, 07:07:32pm CEST (Norway)
External resources will be made available 30 min before a session starts. You may have to reload the page to access the resources.
|
Daily Overview |
| Session | |
|
Local air pollution: evidence, markets, and policy Location: Auditorium F Session Chair: Frank Pisch, Technical University of Darmstadt | |
    | |
What a Terrible Thing to Waste: Providing a Market-based Alternative to Crop Residue Burning University of Oxford, United Kingdom Crop residue burning significantly contributes to air pollution in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper presents a causal estimate of the capital rental subsidy on crop residue burning. I involve 1,024 farmers in a field experiment with two arms: a control arm and a capital rental subsidy arm. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, I find that the capital rental subsidy reduces crop residue burning. The finding suggests that financial constraints rather than information constraints drive crop residue burning. The effects are concentrated among farmers who faced high financial constraints, but not among those who faced information constraints at baseline. Crop residue burning also decreases among neighbors, indicating that green technology generates significant spillover effects within the village. The results suggest that the capital rental subsidy can be a cost-effective measure to address negative externalities, i.e., air pollution, in the agricultural sector. | |