Price incentives for conservation: Experimental evidence from groundwater irrigation

Working paper 12 Nov 2024 Sustainable Growth

This working paper evaluates a programme of price incentives for voluntary groundwater conservation among smallholder farmers in Gujarat, India, where water (and the electricity used to pump it) is scarce and unregulated.

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Measuring demand for groundwater irrigation: Experimental evidence from conservation payments

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Nick Hagerty

Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ariel Zucker

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California - Santa Cruz

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Themes: Sustainable Growth
Countries: India
Regions: South Asia Asia

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