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Influence of the Premium Subsidy on Farmers' Crop Insurance Coverage Decisions

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The Agricultural Risk Protection Act greatly increased the expected marginal net benefit of farmers buying high-coverage crop insurance policies by coupling premium subsidies to coverage level. This policy change, combined with cross-sectional variations in expected marginal net benefits of high-coverage policies, is used to estimate the role that premium subsidies play in farmers' crop insurance decisions. We use county data for corn, soybeans, and wheat to estimate regression equations that are then used to obtain insight into two policy scenarios. We first estimate that eventual adoption of actuarially fair incremental premiums, combined with current coupled subsidies, would increase farmers' purchase of high-coverage policies by almost 400 percent from 1998 levels across the three crops and two plans of insurance included in the analysis. We then estimate that a return to decoupled subsidies would decrease farmers' high-coverage purchase decisions by an average of 36 percent.

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  • Bruce A. Babcock & Chad E. Hart, 2005. "Influence of the Premium Subsidy on Farmers' Crop Insurance Coverage Decisions," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 05-wp393, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University.
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    1. Jing Yi & Henry L. Bryant & James W. Richardson, 2020. "How do premium subsidies affect crop insurance demand at different coverage levels: the case of corn," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 45(1), pages 5-28, January.
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    4. Yi, Jing & Richardson, James & Bryant, Henry, 2016. "How Do Premium Subsidies Affect Crop Insurance Demand at Different Coverage Levels: the Case of Corn," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 236249, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
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    10. Fabian Capitanio & Antonio De Pin, 2018. "Measures of Efficiency of Agricultural Insurance in Italy, Economic Evaluations," Risks, MDPI, vol. 6(4), pages 1-19, November.
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