PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Feifei Sun
AU  - David Abler
AU  - Xiaohua Yu
TI  - Crop Allocation and Increasing Returns to Fertilizer Use in China
AID  - 10.3368/le.97.2.491
DP  - 2021 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 491--508
VI  - 97
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/2/491.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/2/491.full
SO  - Land Econ2021 May 01; 97
AB  - This study sheds light on the effects of crop allocation on economic returns to chemical fertilizer in Chinese agriculture and attempts to explain the increasing trend of aggregate fertilizer use from a different angle even though the government tried to limit the application. We show in theory and through simulation and empirical analyses that while the marginal product of fertilizer is declining at the intensive margin (for a specific crop), this may be offset by an increasing marginal product of fertilizer at the extensive margin (due to shifts in the structure of crops produced).