Arbeitspapier

Using Degree Days to Value Farmland

Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the way that degree days are used in these recent studies is problematic and leads to biased and inaccurate results. These new findings have serious implications for any study that copies this methodology.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5148

Classification
Wirtschaft
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Renewable Resources and Conservation: Land
Valuation of Environmental Effects
Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
Subject
degree days
climate change impacts
agriculture
land values

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Massetti, Emanuele
Mendelsohn, Robert
Chonabayashi, Shun
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2014

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Massetti, Emanuele
  • Mendelsohn, Robert
  • Chonabayashi, Shun
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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