Burning agriculture residues has multiple negative effects including local air pollution, increase in black carbon and contributions to regional and global climate change. This study seeks to understand why farmers burn rice residue by analyzing the residue adoption choices of farmers in the...

This paper demonstrates the equivalence of two SURE models. In the first, the explanatory variables of the first equation form a subset of those in the second equation. The second model is identical except that its second equation is augmented with the OLS residual vector from the first...