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Water Quality and Pollution Control Location: B129 Session Chair: Shuo Yu, UC Berkeley | |
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Social Returns to Conservation: Incentives for Cover Crops and Water Quality in the Midwest University of California, Berkeley, United States of America This study estimates the effectiveness of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) cover crop subsidies to mitigate water pollution from agricultural runoff and leaching. The study uses a novel satellite-derived dataset of field-level cover crop adoption and exploits quasi-experimental variation from the geographically and temporally varying implementation of EQIP's Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (EQIP-MRBI). Event-study results indicate that MRBI funding increases cover crop adoption by 34% relative to baseline, with persistent effects. Linking satellite adoption data to water-quality records, the study finds that a one-percentage-point increase in upstream adoption reduces total nitrogen by 0.83%. The implied benefit-cost ratio is 2.52. | |