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The Pursuit of Efficiency and Its Unintended Consequences: Contract Withdrawals in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.
- Source :
- Review of Agricultural Economics; Fall/Winter2003, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p449, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- This article analyzes why the USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) experiences contract withdrawals. Among approved contracts, 17% withdrew one or more conservation practices. After presenting a model of producers' behavior, a logit model is used to examine the withdrawal phenomenon. Withdrawals are linked to producers having an incentive to include low cost-share payments and practices in the conservation plan that increase the probability of approval, but may not be profitable. These results are discussed in light of the changes to EQIP that have been introduced by the 2002 Farm Act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- AGRICULTURAL conservation
ENVIRONMENTAL protection
AGRICULTURE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10587195
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Review of Agricultural Economics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11168526
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9353.00149