Thomas, Alban
(2021)
Of Particles Molecules: Application of Particle Filtering to Irrigated Agriculture in Punjab, India.
In: Advances in Contemporary Statistics and Econometrics: Festschrift in Honor of Christine Thomas-Agnan
Daouia, Abdelaati
and Ruiz-Gazen, Anne
(eds.)
Springer International Publishing.
ISBN 978-3-030-73248-6
Abstract
We present an estimation method for agricultural crop yield functions, when unobserved productivity depends on water availability that is only partially observed. Using the setting of Bayesian non-linear filtering for estimating Hidden Markov Models, we discuss joint estimation of state variables and parameters in a structural production model with potentially endogenous regressors. An extension to particle filtering with resampling, convolution filter based on kernel regularization, is then discussed. We apply this non-parametric method to estimate a system of structural equations for rice crop yield and unobserved productivity on panel data for 10 districts in Punjab, India. Results based on computer-intensive resampling steps illustrate the interest of convolution particle filtering techniques, with low interquartile range of time-varying estimates. We compare fertilizer elasticity estimates with and without accounting for unobserved productivity, and we find a significant relationship between unobserved productivity and nitrogen fertilizer input, when the former is conditioned on district-level climate variables (summer rainfall, potential evapotranspiration).
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Language: | English |
Date: | June 2021 |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2021 08:20 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2021 08:50 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:125827 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/43701 |