000337160 001__ 337160 000337160 005__ 20230719054311.0 000337160 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.22004/ag.econ.337160 000337160 037__ $$a913-2023-924 000337160 041__ $$aeng 000337160 084__ $$aC25 000337160 084__ $$aQ15 000337160 084__ $$aQ18 000337160 084__ $$aQ25 000337160 084__ $$aQ28 000337160 084__ $$aQ53 000337160 245__ $$aPayments for environmental services with ecological thresholds: farmers’ preferences for a sponsorship bonus 000337160 260__ $$c2023-07-18 000337160 269__ $$a2023-07-18 000337160 300__ $$a28 p. 000337160 336__ $$aWorking or Discussion Paper 000337160 490__ $$aWorking Paper SMART N°23-02 000337160 520__ $$aDesigning incentives for agri-environmental public good provision with threshold effects calls for payment mechanisms favouring critical mass participation and continuity of commitments at the landscape scale. Studies show farmers are reluctant to collective requirements but favourable to a bonus rewarding collective action. We conducted a choice experiment to test the acceptability of a bonus in a hypothetical scheme for improving rivers’ water quality in France. We introduce a sponsorship bonus each time the farmer convinces a peer into entering the scheme that can be combined with a collective result bonus per hectare if the river reaches a higher step of the water quality scale. We consider the involvement of local financers could increase the willingness to pay beyond opportunity costs and income foregone, and propose higher levels of payment than agri-environmental schemes. Results suggests a sponsorship bonus on its own is cost-effective, and that preferences for the bonus levels are heterogeneous.. 000337160 546__ $$aEnglish 000337160 650__ $$aAgricultural and Food Policy 000337160 650__ $$aEnvironmental Economics and Policy 000337160 6531_ $$awater quality 000337160 6531_ $$achoice experiment 000337160 6531_ $$acollective action 000337160 6531_ $$amixed logit model 000337160 6531_ $$alatent class model 000337160 700__ $$aLe Gloux, Fanny 000337160 700__ $$aRopars-Collet, Carole 000337160 700__ $$aIssanchou, Alice 000337160 700__ $$aDupraz, Pierre 000337160 8560_ $$fsmart-wp@inrae.fr 000337160 8564_ $$9d42ab80b-43d2-4a12-b61c-d34b4ec4b0ba$$s1170084$$uhttps://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/337160/files/WP23_02.pdf 000337160 909CO $$ooai:ageconsearch.umn.edu:337160$$pGLOBAL_SET 000337160 913__ $$aBy depositing this Content ('Content') in AgEcon Search, I agree that I am solely responsible for any consequences of uploading this Content to AgEcon Search and making it publicly available, and I represent and warrant that: I am either the sole creator and the owner of the copyrights and all other rights in the Content; or, without obtaining another’s permission, I have the right to deposit the Content in an archive such as AgEcon Search. To the extent that any portions of the Content are not my own creation, they are used with the copyright holder’s express permission or as permitted by law. Additionally, the Content does not infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of another, nor does the Content violate any laws or another’s rights of privacy or publicity. The Content contains no restricted, private, confidential, or otherwise protected data or information that should not be publicly shared. I understand that AgEcon Search will do its best to provide perpetual access to my Content. In order to support these efforts, I grant the Regents of the University of Minnesota ('University'), through AgEcon Search, the following non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, world-wide rights and licenses: to access, reproduce, distribute and publicly display the Content, in whole or in part, in order to secure, preserve and make it publicly available, and to make derivative works based upon the Content in order to migrate the Content to other media or formats, or to preserve its public access. These terms do not transfer ownership of the copyright(s) in the Content. These terms only grant to the University the limited license outlined above. 000337160 980__ $$a913