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: 24th Aug 2026, 01:53:43am WEST
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 | |
|
Egg-Timer: Environmental Impacts and Development Location: D-112 Session Chair: Sukanya Mukherjee, IWH Halle Germany | |
    | |
Environmental Costs of Price Supports: Evidence from India’s Agricultural Price Policies Ashoka University, India Can agricultural support policies generate large-scale environmental externalities? This paper examines the impact of India’s Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) and public grain procurement policies on crop residue burning and air pollution. Using variation in government procurement operations, I show that procurement delinks local grain prices from local supply conditions and ties them to national price floors. This incentivizes farmers to respond to MSP hikes by intensifying cultivation of procured crops, leading to greater specialization and more residue burning. The resulting pollution is associated with increased medical spending by 19 percent and generates mortality costs that outweigh producer gains from higher prices by USD 1 billion. These findings highlight an overlooked environmental cost of agricultural support policies, where assured prices and procurement-driven intensification can impose substantial health costs on society. | |