Testing Day's conjecture that more nitrogen decreases crop yield skewness

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 225-237

  Du, Xiaodong ^a   Hennessy, David A ^b   Yu, Cindy L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

crop insurance; Gibbs sampler; Just and Pope technology; negative skewness; quantile regression; rotation effect

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COTTON; CROP YIELD; MAIZE; NITROGEN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKEWNESS;

GLYCINE MAX; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84855582961     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aar091     Document Type: Article

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