The influence of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program on local water quality

dc.contributor.authorLiu, Pengfeien
dc.contributor.authorWang, Yuen
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Weien
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-06T12:48:37Zen
dc.date.available2022-05-06T12:48:37Zen
dc.date.issued2022-04-27en
dc.description.abstractThe Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is the primary conservation program on working agricultural land. The United States Department of Agriculture obligated over $15 billion through EQIP cost-sharing contracts during the fiscal years 2009–2019. The voluntary nature of the program and the lack of performance assessment have led to speculations regarding the effectiveness of the program in delivering environmental benefits, in particular for improving water quality. This study provides quantitative estimates of the influence of EQIP payments on local water quality at a national scale. We link monitoring station level water quality readings with EQIP contract data and exploit the direction of river flow for identification. The estimated effects of EQIP vary across water quality measures. Estimates indicate that EQIP payments have significantly reduced biochemical oxygen demand and nitrogen, indicating improvements in water quality, but increased total suspended solids, fecal coliform, and phosphorus, suggesting that the implementation of certain conservation practices might have increased soil erosion and pathogen transfer, especially in watersheds with more agricultural production.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12316en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/109819en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAAEA/Wileyen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectAgricultural pollutionen
dc.subjectBest management practicesen
dc.subjectEnvironmental quality incentives programen
dc.subjectWater qualityen
dc.titleThe influence of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program on local water qualityen
dc.title.serialAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economicsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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