@article{Zhang:125216,
      recid = {125216},
      author = {Zhang, Lei and Herzfeld, Thomas},
      title = {Effects of Water Priority Policy on Farmers' Decision on  Acreage Allocation in Northwest China},
      address = {2012},
      number = {1007-2016-79541},
      pages = {25},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {This article analyses the impact of a water allocation  priority policy for a specific crop on farmers’ acreage  allocation to different crops. To accomplish this, a system  of crop acreage demands conditional on output yields,  prices of variable inputs and levels of quasi-fixed inputs  is estimated. The analysis based on a two-year farm  household panel data from an arid region in northwest  China. The results show that the water policy change  results in a lower elasticity of land demand not only for  Atlantic potatoes (i.e. the preferential crop), but also  for the other crops. Acreage allocation to grains differs  from other crops due to their use within the farm  household. Moreover, the estimated elasticities of  quasi-fixed inputs reveal that whereas the area of cash  crops and Atlantic potatoes increases with increased use of  own labour before the policy change, it does so only for  cash crops after the policy change. With respect to own and  exchanged labour Atlantic potatoes behave like grains and  regular potatoes after the policy change.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/125216},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.125216},
}