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Land Markets and the Value of Water: Hedonic Analysis Using Repeat Sales of Farmland

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  • Steven Buck
  • Maximilian Auffhammer
  • David Sunding

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The lack of robust water markets makes it difficult to value irrigation water. Because water rights are appurtenant to land, it is possible to infer the value of water from observed differences in the market price of land. We use panel data on repeat farmland sales in California's San Joaquin Valley to estimate a hedonic regression equation with parcel fixed effects. This controls for sources of omitted variables bias and allows us to recover the value of irrigation water to landowners in our sample. We show that a more traditional cross-sectional regression results in an artificially low value of irrigation water.

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  • Steven Buck & Maximilian Auffhammer & David Sunding, 2014. "Land Markets and the Value of Water: Hedonic Analysis Using Repeat Sales of Farmland," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 96(4), pages 953-969.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:96:y:2014:i:4:p:953-969.
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