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Erik Lichtenberg
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 148
Citations - 6048
Erik Lichtenberg is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Cost sharing. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 148 publications receiving 5645 citations. Previous affiliations of Erik Lichtenberg include University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources & Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas.
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Assessing farmland protection policy in China
Erik Lichtenberg,Chengri Ding +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the existing evidence regarding the performance of China's farmland protection policies in light of its food security goals and discuss the implications of these failures for future policy development, with an emphasis on reform of the land allocation system.
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The Econometrics of Damage Control: Why Specification Matters
Erik Lichtenberg,David Zilberman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an econometric model based on the key characteristics of damage control agents and examined its properties, showing that standard production function specifications overestimate damage control agent productivity and have erroneous implications for the evolution of DAM productivity.
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Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Chemical Use in Agriculture
TL;DR: This article examined how crop insurance affects corn farmers' fertilizer and pesticide use in the U.S. Midwest and found that those with insurance applied significantly more nitrogen per acre (19%), spent more on pesticides (21%), and treated more acreage with both herbicides and insecticides (7% and 63%).
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Local officials as land developers: Urban spatial expansion in China
Erik Lichtenberg,Chengri Ding +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of economic incentives in the primary land allocation in China in the recent years and demonstrated how recent fiscal and governance reforms give rise to land conversion decisions and long run urban spatial sizes that respond to economic incentives even though the allocation of land between urban and rural uses is determined administratively.
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Does quality influence choice of hospital
Harold S. Luft,Deborah W. Garnick,David H. Mark,Deborah J. Peltzman,Ciaran S. Phibbs,Erik Lichtenberg,Stephen J. McPhee +6 more
TL;DR: Quality played an important role in choices among hospitals even before explicit data were widely available, and greater distance and public or proprietary ownership consistently reduced the likelihood of selection while medical school affiliation increased the likelihoodof selection.