Assessing the economic impacts of pesticide regulations

Schneider, Uwe; Rasche, Livia; McCarl, B.A.

doi:10.3390/agriculture8040053

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Schneider, U., Rasche, L., & McCarl, B. (2018). Assessing the economic impacts of pesticide regulations. Agriculture (Switzerland), 8. doi:10.3390/agriculture8040053.

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Economic impacts of pesticide regulations are assessed using five alternative methodologies. The regulations include crop supply-enhancing eradication programs and crop supply-decreasing pesticide bans. Alternative assessment methodologies differ regarding assumptions about market price and crop acreage adjustments. Results show that market and producer adjustments substantially impact conclusions about winners and losers from regulations, and estimated welfare effects can differ widely between the different methodologies. For small technological changes such as the hypothetical pendimethalin regulation, farm budgeting and sector modeling yield similar estimates. For more severe technological changes—like the boll weevil eradication program—simple budgeting approaches lead to a substantial bias. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.