Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53196 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 83.2008
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in the United States between 1982 and 1997. We quantify the effects of net returns to alternative land uses on private landowners' decisions to allocate land among six major uses, drawing on detailed micro-data on land use and land quality that are comprehensive of the contiguous U.S. This analysis provides the first evidence of the relative historical importance of markets and Federal farm policies affecting land-use changes nationally.
Subjects: 
Land Use
Land-Use Change
Econometric Analysis
Simulations
JEL: 
O51
Q15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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