Land Retirement Program Design in the Presence of Crop Insurance Subsidies
指出美国联邦政府的环保、生物燃料和作物保险项目在土地休耕决策中未考虑保险补贴的成本节约，并设计了一个包含保险补贴节约子指标的最优效益指数，用于优先休耕在洛伦兹随机排序中排名更高的土地。
The U.S. federal government implements environmental, biofuels and crop insurance programs that influence land use. They are not well integrated in that cost savings from crop insurance subsidies are not acknowledged when screening land for retirement or when calculating the cost of land retirement programs. We identify and evaluate an optimal benefit index for enrollment in a land retirement program that includes a sub-index to rank land according to insurance subsidy savings. All else equal, land ranked higher in the Lorenz stochastic order should be retired first.