TY  - JOUR
AU  - Carroll, Christine L
AU  - Carter, Colin A
AU  - Goodhue, Rachael E
AU  - Lawell, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin
TI  - Crop Disease and Agricultural Productivity
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 23513
PY  - 2017
Y2  - June 2017
DO  - 10.3386/w23513
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23513
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23513.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Christine L. Carroll
College of Agriculture
CSU Chico
940 West First Street
Chico, CA 95929
E-Mail: clcarroll@csuchico.edu

Colin A. Carter
Agricultural and Resource Economics 
Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics 
University of California, Davis 
One Shields Avenue 
Davis, CA 95616
E-Mail: colin@primal.ucdavis.edu

Rachael Goodhue
University of California at Davis
Agricultural and Resource Economics
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616  
E-Mail: goodhue@primal.ucdavis.edu

Cynthia Lin Lawell
Cornell University
E-Mail: clinlawell@cornell.edu
M1  - published as Christine L. Carroll, Colin A. Carter, Rachael E. Goodhue, C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell. "Crop Disease and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Model of Verticillium Wilt Management," in Wolfram Schlenker, editor, "Agricultural Productivity and Producer Behavior" University of Chicago Press (2019)

M3  - presented at "Understanding Productivity Growth in Agriculture", May 11-12, 2017
AB  - Crop diseases and how they are managed can have a large impact on agricultural productivity. This paper discusses the effects on agricultural productivity of Verticillium dahliae, a soil borne fungus that is introduced to the soil via infested spinach seeds and that causes subsequent lettuce crops to be afflicted with Verticillium wilt. We use a dynamic structural econometric model of Verticillium wilt management for lettuce crops in Monterey County, California to examine the effects of Verticillium wilt on crop-fumigation decisions and on grower welfare. We also discuss our research on the externalities that arise with renters, and between seed companies and growers due to Verticillium wilt, as these disease-related externalities have important implications for agricultural productivity.
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