
	Thursday, May 12
11:00 am	Welcome and Overview Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Spiro Stefanou, Administrator, USDA-ERS
11:15 am	Irrigation and Climate Change: Long-Run Adaptation and its Externalities Charles A Taylor, Harvard University
11:16 am	Discussant/Moderator: Tamma A. Carleton, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
11:50 am	The Institutional Costs of Adaptation: Agricultural Drainage in the United States (slides) Eric C. Edwards, University of California Davis Wally N. Thurman, North Carolina State University
	A National Estimate of Irrigation Canal Lining and Piping Water Conservation (slides) Robert A. Hrozencik, USDA-ERS Nicholas A. Potter, USDA-ERS Steven Wallander, USDA-ERS
11:52 am	Discussant/Moderator: Karina Schoengold, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
12:50 pm	Break
1:10 pm	Center Pivot Irrigation Systems as a Form of Drought Risk Mitigation in Humid Regions Daniel C. Cooley, Colorado School of Mines Steven M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines
	Estimating the Effect of Easements on Agricultural Production Nicole Karwowski, University of Wisconsin
1:12 pm	Discussant/Moderator: Zeynep K. Hansen, Boise State University and NBER
2:10 pm	Weather, Climate, and Technology Adoption: An Application to Drought-Tolerant Corn in the United States Jonathan R. McFadden, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture David J. Smith, Environmental Protection Agency Steven Wallander, USDA-ERS
	Cover Crops, Drought, Yield, and Risk: An Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production Fengxia Dong, USDA-ERS
2:12 pm	Discussant/Moderator: Prabhu Pingali, Cornell University
3:10 pm	Group Discussion Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
3:30 pm	Adjourn
	Friday, May 13
11:00 am	Producer Beliefs and Conservation: The Impact of Perceived Water Scarcity on Irrigation Technology Adoption Joey Blumberg, Colorado State University Chris Goemans, Colorado State University Dale Manning, Colorado State University
	Climate Change and Downstream Water Quality in Agricultural Production: The Case of Nutrient Runoff to the Gulf of Mexico Levan Elbakidze, West Virginia University Yuelu Xu, West Virginia University Philip W. Gassman, Iowa State University Jeffrey G. Arnold, USDA-ARS Haw Yen, Auburn University
	Nutrient Pollution and U.S. Agriculture: Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Carleton University Aaron Smith, University of California, Davis
11:03 am	Discussant/Moderator: Lynne Y. Lewis, Bates College
12:25 pm	Break
12:45 pm	The Regulatory Cost and Political Economy of Managing California’s Groundwater Ellen M. Bruno, University of California, Berkeley Nick Hagerty, Montana State University Arthur R. Wardle, University of California, Berkeley
	Estimating the Demand for In-situ Groundwater for Climate Resilience: The Case of the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer in Arkansas Kent Kovacs, USDA-ERS Shelby Rider, University of Arkansas
12:47 pm	Discussant/Moderator: Andrew B. Ayres, Public Policy Institute of California
1:45 pm	Group Discussion Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
2:15 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Ifedotun V. Aina, University of Cape Town
Jose Albiac, University of Zaragoza
Leslie Alex, UC, Davis
Soren T. Anderson, Michigan State University and NBER
Jeffrey G. Arnold, USDA-ARS
Andrew B. Ayres, University of Nevada, Reno
Antonio Bento, University of Southern California and NBER
Joey Blumberg, Colorado State University
Ellen M. Bruno, University of California, Berkeley
Tamma Carleton, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jeff Connor, University of Southern Australia
Daniel J. Cooley, Colorado School of Mines
Ariel Dinar, University of California, Riverside
Fengxia Dong, USDA-ERS
Eric C. Edwards, University of California Davis
Levan Elbakidze, West Virginia University
Daniel Crespo Estage, University of Zaragoza
Encarna Esteban, University of Zaragoza
Price V. Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER
R. Quentin Grafton, Australian National University
Lijun Guo, UC, Davis
Nick Hagerty, Montana State University
Ellen E. Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California
Michael Hanemann, University of California at Berkeley
Zeynep K. Hansen, Boise State University and NBER
Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER
Solomon M. Hsiang, Stanford University and NBER
William Jaeger, Oregon State University
Taylor Jaworski, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Katrina Jessoe, University of California at Davis
Ronald Johnson
Matthew E. Kahn, University of Southern California and NBER
Nicole Karwowski, University of Wisconsin
B. Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College and NBER
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University and NBER
Charles D. Kolstad, Stanford University and NBER
Kent Kovacs, USDA-ERS

Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona and NBER
Lynne Y. Lewis, Bates College
Gary D. Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Jonathan R. McFadden, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Konstantinos Metaxoglou, Carleton University
Michael Moore, University of Michigan
Pierre Mérel, UCD
Nelson Ndahangwapo, University of Cape Town
Mehdi Nemati, University of California Riverside
Allen Parkman, University of Minnesota
Prabhu Pingali, Cornell University
Andrew Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara
James M. Poterba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nicholas A. Potter, USDA-ERS
Michael K. Price, University of Alabama and NBER
Shawn Regan, Property and Environment Research Center
Ami Reznik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shelby Rider, University of Arkansas
Joshua L. Rosenbloom, Iowa State University and NBER
James Roumasset, University of Hawai‘i
Gabriel Sampson, Kennesaw State University
Karina Schoengold, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Hilary Sigman, Rutgers University and NBER
Steven M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines
Robert Stavins, Harvard University and NBER
Spiro Stefanou, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Daniel Szmurlo, USDA
Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University
Djiby Thiam, University of Cape Town
Steven Wallander, USDA-ERS
Frank Ward, New Mexico State University
Arthur R. Wardle, University of California, Berkeley
Richard Watt, University of Canterbury
Sarah Wheeler, University of Adelade
Bob Wilkinson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yuelu Xu, West Virginia University