摘要：This paper quantitatively analyzes the cost-effectiveness of alternative green payment policies designed to achieve a targeted level of pollution control by heterogeneous microunits. These green payment policies include cost-share subsidies and input-reduction subsidies. The paper shows that unlike a pollution tax, a cost-share subsidy and an input-reduction subsidy are much more restricted in the types of incentives they provide for conservation of polluting inputs and adoption of a conservation technology to control pollution. Costs of abatement with alternative policies and implications for production and government payments are compared using a simulation model for controlling drainage from irrigated cotton production in California.
关键词：technology adoption; conservation; environmental policy; green payment
