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Water Pollution Location: B129 Session Chair: Erin Litzow, University of Texas at Dallas | |
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Unintended Environment and Health Consequences of Distortionary Fertilizer Subsidies 1: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States of America; 2: Deakin University, Australia; 3: University of California, Santa Barbara, United States of America Governments worldwide subsidize agricultural inputs to support farmers and increase food production. While subsidies can encourage technology adoption, subsidies may drive the overuse of some chemical inputs, exacerbating their environmental impact. This paper examines the unintended environmental and health consequences of increased fertilizer use driven by selective subsidy reforms. In 2010, India implemented a fertilizer subsidy change favoring nitrogen, which led to lower prices relative to phosphorus and potassium fertilizers. Leveraging the timing of this policy and exploiting exogenous variation in pre-determined geographic characteristics such as soil texture and river flow direction, we find significant effects of the subsidy on nitrogen pollution in downstream water bodies and infant mortality in downstream rural areas. For every 1 % percent increase in nitrate levels, we find a 1.6 % increase in rural infant mortality rates. | |