Do farmers internalise environmental spillovers of pesticides in production?

Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 624-640

  Skevas, Theodoros ^a   Stefanou, Spiro E ^b   Lansink, Alfons Oude ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Dynamics; Pesticides; Q12; Q15; Q50; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ASYMMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; CASH CROPPING; CROP PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; PESTICIDE; SYMMETRY;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84882595118     PISSN: 0021857X     EISSN: 14779552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1477-9552.12007     Document Type: Article

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