A Hedonic Analysis of Herbicides: Do User Safety and Water Quality Matter?
通过分析美国玉米和大豆除草剂市场的支出数据，发现农民在选择除草剂时不仅关注除草效果，也重视水质和用户安全特性，但安全特性的影响弹性较小。
Abstract Farmers may value water quality and user safety characteristics of herbicides as they select among products to obtain weed control. Expenditures per application in the U.S. corn and soybean herbicide markets are explained by several safety characteristics in addition to market and weed control characteristics. The explicit inclusion of safety characteristics in the farm decision model indicates that not all safety aspects of pesticide use are external to farmers. Leaching potential and user toxicity are statistically significant, but their elasticities are small relative to broadleaf and grass weed control efficacy.