availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more … efficiency units enters the production technology, and investment in water management assets raises efficiency of water use. Our …

for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential …

Katharine Coman's "Some Unsettled Problems of Irrigation," published in March 1911 in the first issue of the American … and irrigation districts that emerged in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to …

algorithm's cutoff using a regression discontinuity design, we find that automated irrigation violation warnings cause … irrigation policy enforcement. Our findings highlight the merits of implementing multidimensional conservation programs …

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then …Agricultural producers make investment decisions based on beliefs about future returns. This article investigates how … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by …

may mute their impact on productive investment. In an experiment in Malawi, we cross-cut cash transfers with an "input … fair," designed to reduce transport costs to access agricultural inputs. Cash alone increases investment by 27%, while the … joint provision of cash and the input fair increases investment by about 40%; thus, the incremental effect of the input fair …

agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a … decentralized and competitive research system in the US. Recent intellectual property reforms motivated increased private investment …. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …

Over the past decade, a number of researchers have extended conventional models of business fixed investment to … incorporate a role for financial constraints' in determining investment. This paper reviews developments and challenges in this … challenges. First, I describe analytical underpinnings of models of capital-market imperfections in the investment process, and …

companies. I test the joint hypothesis that 1) a decrease in cash/collateral decreases investment, holding fixed the … profitability of investment, and 2) the finance costs of different parts of the same corporation are interdependent. The results … support this joint hypothesis: oil companies significantly reduced their non-oil investment compared to the median industry …