PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Khanal, Aditya R. AU - Mishra, Ashok K. AU - Bhattarai, Madhusudan TI - Assessing the Impact of Weather Risk on Land Use Intensity: A Nonstationary and Dynamic Panel Modeling Approach AID - 10.3368/le.93.1.40 DP - 2017 Feb 01 TA - Land Economics PG - 40--58 VI - 93 IP - 1 4099 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/93/1/40.short 4100 - http://le.uwpress.org/content/93/1/40.full SO - Land Econ2017 Feb 01; 93 AB - Climatic variation, or weather risk, plays an important role in production agriculture. Using district-level panels for 42 years from India and nonstationary and dynamic panel estimation procedures, we estimate the impact of weather risk on land use intensity. Our results suggest the impact of weather risk on land use intensity is negative in the short run. Additionally, we find a positive effect of share of high yielding varieties production and share of irrigated acreage on land use intensity. Our study also indicates that the impact of weather risk on land use intensity has diminished in the post–market reform period (after 1990). (JEL C33, Q15)