The Effect of Mandatory Agro‐Environmental Policy on Farm Fertiliser and Pesticide Expenditure
研究欧盟强制性交叉合规措施对农场化肥和农药支出的因果影响，发现该措施降低了相关支出，但依赖公共支付比例较高的农户并未表现出更强的环境改善动机。
Abstract EU farmers are subject to mandatory cross‐compliance measures, requiring them to meet environmental conditions to be eligible for public support. These obligations reinforce incentives for farmers to change their behaviour towards the environment. We apply quasi‐experimental methods to measure the causal relationship between cross‐compliance and some specific farm environmental performance. We find that cross‐compliance reduced farm fertiliser and pesticide expenditure. This result also holds for farmers who participated in other voluntary agro‐environmental schemes. However, the results do not support our expectations that farmers who relied on larger shares of public payments had a stronger motivation to improve their environmental performance.