@article{Roberts:9828,
      recid = {9828},
      author = {Roberts, Michael J. and O'Donoghue, Erik J. and Key, Nigel  D.},
      title = {Does Crop Insurance Affect Crop Yields?},
      address = {2007},
      number = {381-2016-22146},
      series = {Selected Paper 175203},
      pages = {18},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {We use administrative data from the Federal crop insurance  program to examine how yield distributions change as  farmers cycle into and out of the program.  We are able to  do this by linking many years of crop insurance data by  individual farm conditioning observed yields on the  particular county and year in which they are observed.  Armed with millions of observations, we examine many states  and five major crops: corn, soybeans, wheat, rice and  cotton.  We find little evidence that yield distributions  are affected by insurance.  An exception is rice in  Arkansas, where insurance shifts the distribution markedly  downward.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9828},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.9828},
}