TY - EJOUR AB - This study examines the impact of publicly supported insurance on agricultural land values. The analysis employs confidential, nationally representative panel data on field-level pastureland values and exploits a natural experiment provided by gradual introduction of the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Pilot Program. We use a field-level fixed-effects model that controls for several time-variant factors. We find that insurance availability is associated with an increase of at least 4 percent in pastureland values. This increase is comparable with increases generated by other government programs but is much smaller than total farmland value increases experienced in recent years. AU - Ifft, Jennifer AU - Wu, Shang AU - Kuethe, Todd H. DA - 2014 DA - 2014 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.188001 DO - doi ID - 188001 JF - Agricultural and Resource Economics Review KW - Land Economics/Use KW - Livestock Production/Industries KW - Production Economics KW - Risk and Uncertainty KW - farmland values KW - insurance KW - June Area Survey L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/188001/files/ARER2014%2012%20Ifft%20AEPrepubl.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/188001/files/ARER2014%2012%20Ifft%20AEPrepubl.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/188001/files/ARER2014%2012%20Ifft%20AEPrepubl.pdf LA - eng LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/188001/files/ARER2014%2012%20Ifft%20AEPrepubl.pdf N2 - This study examines the impact of publicly supported insurance on agricultural land values. The analysis employs confidential, nationally representative panel data on field-level pastureland values and exploits a natural experiment provided by gradual introduction of the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Pilot Program. We use a field-level fixed-effects model that controls for several time-variant factors. We find that insurance availability is associated with an increase of at least 4 percent in pastureland values. This increase is comparable with increases generated by other government programs but is much smaller than total farmland value increases experienced in recent years. PY - 2014 PY - 2014 T1 - The Impact of Pasture Insurance on Farmland Values TI - The Impact of Pasture Insurance on Farmland Values UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/188001/files/ARER2014%2012%20Ifft%20AEPrepubl.pdf VL - Prepublication Previews Y1 - 2014 T2 - Agricultural and Resource Economics Review ER -