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  1. Cooling Externality of Large-Scale Irrigation
    Published: February 2023
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Mass

    We provide novel evidence that large-scale irrigation heterogeneously shifts the temperature distribution towards cooler temperatures during the months of the growing season relative to the rest of the year. We employ a triple-difference estimator... more

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    We provide novel evidence that large-scale irrigation heterogeneously shifts the temperature distribution towards cooler temperatures during the months of the growing season relative to the rest of the year. We employ a triple-difference estimator using a 59-year-long panel of weather records paired with the fraction of a county that is irrigated in 393 counties over the Ogallala aquifer. Cooling-by-irrigation propagates downwind and reduces the upper tail of the temperature distribution by up to 3C (5F) during the month of August, which has positive externalities on downwind crop yields ($120 million per year) and temperature-induced excess mortality ($240 million per year) that are of equal magnitude as the direct benefits of irrigation by enhancing heat tolerance ($440 million per year). The observed cooling helps explain why the US has seen less warming, especially of very hot temperatures, than what climate models project. Our findings highlight that weather shocks in highly irrigated areas are not exogenous but are influenced by human responses in the form of irrigation

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: NBER working paper series ; no. w30966
    Subjects: Bewässerung; Wetter; Klima; Pflanzenbau; Externer Effekt; USA; General; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource, illustrations (black and white)
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  2. Anticipatory effects of regulation in open access
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, [Berkeley, CA]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: CUDARE working papers
    Subjects: Grundwasser; Rohstoffpolitik; Regulierung; Open Access; Investitionsentscheidung; Bewässerung; Differenz von Differenzen; Kalifornien
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 50 Seiten), Illustrationen