Climatic impacts across agricultural crop yield distributions: An application of quantile regression on rice crops in Andhra Pradesh, India

Ecological Economics

Volumn 87, Issue , 2013, Pages 95-109

  Barnwal, Prabhat ^a,b   Kotani, Koji ^c  

^a International University   (Japan)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Andhra Pradesh; Climate change; India; Quantile regression; Rice; Yield; Yield variability

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; FOOD SECURITY; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RICE; VULNERABILITY;

ANDHRA PRADESH; INDIA;

EID: 84872897427     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.11.024     Document Type: Article

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