Role of income and policy in reducing water pollution: Evidence from the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative
James C. Davis,
Krishna P. Paudel,
Anil Rupasingha
Abstract:We study the effectiveness of the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI) in reducing nitrogen pollution in surface water bodies. We use a Kitagawa‐Oaxaca‐Blinder (KOB) counterfactual decomposition method to quantify the role of income and policy in reducing nitrogen pollution in waterbodies. Our results show that the MRBI policy for the 2012 cohort of implemented watersheds across five states (Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee) experienced a 43% reduction in nitrogen concen… Show more
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