Options for Improving Conservation Programs : Insights from Auction Theory and Economic Experiments

USDA spends over $5 billion per year on conservation activities, mostly through voluntary programs that pay farmers and landowners to provide environmental services. USDA can reduce expenditures and encourage landowners to provide greater environmental services by making use of available data. Laboratory experiments suggest that using more sophisticated enrollment mechanisms could reduce the cost of enrollment in a given program by as much as 18 percent

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Hellerstein, Daniel
Other Persons:	Higgins, Nathaniel Alan (contributor) ; Roberts, Michael J. (contributor)
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Auktion \| Auction \| Agrarpolitik \| Agricultural policy \| Landwirtschaft \| Agriculture \| Landnutzung \| Land use \| Umweltschutz \| Environmental protection \| Auktionstheorie \| Auction theory \| Experiment