Wuepper, David; Borrelli, Pasquale; Müller, Daniel; … - In: Agricultural Systems 185 (2020)
We examine the historical legacy of the Soviet Union on the current rate of human-induced soil erosion in its successor … countries. We use a spatial regression discontinuity design and high-resolution soil erosion data. Our results suggest strong … discontinuities in current soil erosion rates along the former border of the Soviet Union. We find that soil erosion in countries that …