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Working Papers

2023

1. Create a culture of experiments in environmental programs
   Other publications TiSEM, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management

2021

2. A reassessment of the potential for loss-framed incentive contracts to increase productivity: a meta-analysis and a real-effort experiment
   Working Papers, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute
   See also Journal Article A reassessment of the potential for loss-framed incentive contracts to increase productivity: a meta-analysis and a real-effort experiment, Experimental Economics, Springer (2022) View citations (2) (2022)
3. Input Efficiency as a Solution to Externalities: A Randomized Controlled Trial
   EfD Discussion Paper, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg

2017

4. Behavioral Insights for Agri-Environmental Program and Policy Design
   2018 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 5-7, 2018, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
5. Do The Effects of Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (50)
6. Do The Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and Evidence from 38 Natural Field Experiments
   Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University View citations (51)
   Also in Natural Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website (2017) View citations (52)
7. Farmer participation in nutrient management practices in Delaware: A field experiment
   2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2011

8. Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (18)
   See also Journal Article Using Nonpecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2013) View citations (377) (2013)

2009

9. What are the social impacts of land use restrictions on local communities? Empirical evidence from Costa Rica
   2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China, International Association of Agricultural Economists

2008

10. Estimating Child Time Preferences: Aiding Rural Schools in Improving Human Capital Formation
    2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)
11. The Today and Tomorrow of Kids
    Experimental Economics Center Working Paper Series, Experimental Economics Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University View citations (25)

2005

12. Can public goods experiments inform policy? Interpreting results in the presence of confused subjects
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
13. Cultural diversity, discrimination and economic outcomes: An experimental analysis
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (1)
14. Know thyself: Incompetence and overconfidence
    Framed Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (3)

2004

15. Direct Payments to Protect Endangered Ecosystems and Experimental Methods to Estimate Payment Costs
    EEPSEA Special and Technical Paper, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) View citations (1)

2000

16. Detecting Other-Regarding Behavior with Virtual Players
    Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management
    See also Journal Article Detecting other-regarding behavior with virtual players, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2003) View citations (44) (2003)
17. Global Habitat Protection: Limitations of Development Interventions and the Role for a Permanent International Habitat Reserve
    Working Papers, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management View citations (4)
18. The Cost-Effectiveness of Conservation Payments
    Discussion Papers, Resources for the Future View citations (1)
    Also in RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future (2000) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article The Cost-Effectiveness of Conservation Payments, Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press (2002) View citations (107) (2002)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Behavioral Biases among Producers: Experimental Evidence of Anchoring in Procurement Auctions
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, (5), 1381-1392
2. Input Efficiency as a Solution to Externalities and Resource Scarcity: A Randomized Controlled Trial
   Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2024, 11, (1), 171 - 211
3. Perspectives on stakeholder participation in the design of economic experiments for agricultural policymaking: Pros, cons, and twelve recommendations for researchers
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2024, 46, (1), 338-359
4. Social comparisons and groundwater use: Evidence from Colorado and Kansas
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024, 106, (2), 946-966 View citations (1)

2023

5. Applying behavioral science to agriculture, food, and agri-environmental policymaking
   Food Policy, 2023, 120, (C)
6. Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference
   Nature Communications, 2023, 14, (1), 1-12 View citations (2)
7. Credibility crisis in agricultural economics
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2023, 45, (3), 1275-1291 View citations (4)
8. Informational nudges in conservation auctions: A field experiment with U.S. farmers
   Food Policy, 2023, 120, (C) View citations (2)
9. Publisher Correction: Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference
   Nature Communications, 2023, 14, (1), 1-1 View citations (2)

2022

10. A reassessment of the potential for loss-framed incentive contracts to increase productivity: a meta-analysis and a real-effort experiment
    Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, (5), 1441-1466 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper A reassessment of the potential for loss-framed incentive contracts to increase productivity: a meta-analysis and a real-effort experiment, Working Papers (2021) (2021)
11. Lottery Incentives and Resource Management: Evidence from the Agricultural Data Reporting Incentive Program (AgDRIP)
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2022, 82, (4), 847-867
12. Time and risk preferences of individuals, married couples and unrelated pairs
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 2022, 97, (C) View citations (1)

2021

13. A field experiment to estimate the effects of anchoring and framing on residents’ willingness to purchase water runoff management technologies
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2021, 63, (C) View citations (4)
14. Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science
    Nature Human Behaviour, 2021, 5, (5), 550-556 View citations (3)
15. Challenges in Recruiting U.S. Farmers for Policy‐Relevant Economic Field Experiments
    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021, 43, (2), 556-572 View citations (4)
16. PROTOCOL: Residential energy efficiency interventions: An effectiveness systematic review
    Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2021, 17, (4) View citations (1)
17. Reimagining safe drinking water on the basis of twenty-first-century science
    Nature Sustainability, 2021, 4, (12), 1032-1037 View citations (1)
18. The Effect of Peer Comparisons on Polluters: A Randomized Field Experiment among Wastewater Dischargers
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2021, 79, (4), 627-652 View citations (6)
19. The Problem of Feral Hogs and the Challenges of Providing a Weak‐Link Public Good
    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021, 43, (3), 985-1002

2020

20. Feature—Is a Replicability Crisis on the Horizon for Environmental and Resource Economics?
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2020, 14, (2), 339 - 351 View citations (19)
21. The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs
    World Development, 2020, 127, (C) View citations (5)

2019

22. Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research: Methodological Challenges, Literature Gaps, and Recommendations
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2019, 73, (3), 719-742 View citations (20)
23. Incentives for climate mitigation in the land use sector—the effects of payment for environmental services on environmental and socioeconomic outcomes in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A mixed‐methods systematic review
    Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2019, 15, (3) View citations (12)
24. The behavioural effect of electronic home energy reports: Evidence from a randomised field trial in the United States
    Energy Policy, 2019, 132, (C), 1256-1261 View citations (16)
25. The impacts of a capacity-building workshop in a randomized adaptation project
    Nature Climate Change, 2019, 9, (8), 587-591 View citations (5)

2018

26. PROTOCOL: Incentives for climate mitigation in the land use sector: a mixed‐methods systematic review of the effectiveness of payment for environment services (PES) on environmental and socio‐economic outcomes in low‐ and middle‐income countries
    Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2018, 14, (1), 1-77 View citations (2)

2017

27. A cautionary tale on using panel data estimators to measure program impacts
    Economics Letters, 2017, 151, (C), 82-90 View citations (10)
28. Addressing Participant Inattention in Federal Programs: A Field Experiment with The Conservation Reserve Program
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99, (4), 914-931 View citations (41)
29. Applying Behavioral Insights to Improve Water Security
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2017, 32, (4) View citations (18)
30. Panel Data Designs and Estimators as Substitutes for Randomized Controlled Trials in the Evaluation of Public Programs
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2017, 4, (1), 281 - 317 View citations (49)

2016

31. Emerging Evidence on the Effectiveness of Tropical Forest Conservation
    PLOS ONE, 2016, 11, (11), 1-11 View citations (17)

2015

32. Do Payments Pay Off? Evidence from Participation in Costa Rica’s PES Program
    PLOS ONE, 2015, 10, (7), 1-17 View citations (10)

2014

33. Are Voters More Likely to Contribute to Other Public Goods? Evidence from a Large‐Scale Randomized Policy Experiment
    American Journal of Political Science, 2014, 58, (1), 17-30 View citations (11)
34. The Persistent Impacts of Norm-Based Messaging and Their Implications for Water Conservation
    Journal of Consumer Policy, 2014, 37, (3), 437-452 View citations (91)
35. The performance of non-experimental designs in the evaluation of environmental programs: A design-replication study using a large-scale randomized experiment as a benchmark
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 107, (PA), 344-365 View citations (25)

2013

36. Heterogeneous treatment effects and mechanisms in information-based environmental policies: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2013, 35, (3), 356-379 View citations (94)
37. Using Nonpecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95, (1), 64-73 View citations (377)
    See also Working Paper Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large Scale Field Experiment, NBER Working Papers (2011) View citations (18) (2011)

2012

38. Do Payments for Environmental Services Affect Forest Cover? A Farm-Level Evaluation from Costa Rica
    Land Economics, 2012, 88, (2) View citations (96)
39. Evaluation of biodiversity policy instruments: what works and what doesn’t?
    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2012, 28, (1), 69-92 View citations (84)
40. Forest Figures: Ecosystem Services Valuation and Policy Evaluation in Developing Countries
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2012, 6, (1), 20-44 View citations (30)

2011

41. Protecting Ecosystems and Alleviating Poverty with Parks and Reserves: ‘Win-Win’ or Tradeoffs?
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2011, 48, (2), 269-286 View citations (49)
42. The Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-Based Policy Instruments: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment
    American Economic Review, 2011, 101, (3), 318-22 View citations (203)
43. The today and tomorrow of kids: Time preferences and educational outcomes of children
    Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, (11), 1377-1385 View citations (227)

2010

44. Know Thyself: Competence and Self-awareness
    Atlantic Economic Journal, 2010, 38, (2), 183-196 View citations (9)
45. Show Me the Money: Do Payments Supply Environmental Services in Developing Countries?
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2010, 4, (2), 254-274 View citations (218)
46. The Source and Significance of Confusion in Public Goods Experiments
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010, 10, (1), 42 View citations (75)

2009

47. Experimental tests of Ricardian equivalence with distortionary versus nondistortionary taxes
    Economics Bulletin, 2009, 29, (4), 2556-2572 View citations (12)
48. Park Location Affects Forest Protection: Land Characteristics Cause Differences in Park Impacts across Costa Rica
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2009, 9, (2), 26 View citations (71)

2008

49. Asymmetric information and contract design for payments for environmental services
    Ecological Economics, 2008, 65, (4), 810-821 View citations (245)

2007

50. Stock market reactions to information disclosure: new evidence from Japan’s pollutant release and transfer register
    Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2007, 8, (2), 159-171 View citations (1)
    Also in Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 2007, 8, (2), 159-171 (2007) View citations (3)
51. The effectiveness of the US endangered species act: An econometric analysis using matching methods
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2007, 54, (3), 245-261 View citations (45)
52. Voluntary development of environmental management systems: motivations and regulatory implications
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2007, 32, (1), 37-65 View citations (12)

2006

53. Money for Nothing? A Call for Empirical Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation Investments
    PLOS Biology, 2006, 4, (4), 1-

2005

54. Cost-effective conservation when eco-entrepreneurs have market power
    Environment and Development Economics, 2005, 10, (5), 651-663 View citations (1)
55. Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One? A Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005, 4, (1), 1-12 View citations (25)
56. Price Premiums for Eco-friendly Commodities: Are ‘Green’ Markets the Best Way to Protect Endangered Ecosystems?
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2005, 32, (3), 419-438 View citations (19)

2004

57. Targeting Conservation Investments in Heterogeneous Landscapes: A Distance-Function Approach and Application to Watershed Management
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004, 86, (4), 905-918 View citations (24)

2003

58. Assigning priority to environmental policy interventions in a heterogeneous world
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003, 22, (1), 27-43 View citations (37)
59. Conservation Contracting in Heterogeneous Landscapes: An Application to Watershed Protection and Threshold Constraints
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2003, 32, (1), 12 View citations (10)
60. Conservation Contracting in Heterogeneous Landscapes: An Application to Watershed Protection with Threshold Constraints
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2003, 32, (1), 53-64 View citations (9)
61. Detecting other-regarding behavior with virtual players
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2003, 51, (1), 99-109 View citations (44)
    See also Working Paper Detecting Other-Regarding Behavior with Virtual Players, Working Papers (2000) (2000)

2002

62. Optimizing the Riparian Buffer: Harold Brook in the Skaneateles Lake Watershed, New York
    Land Economics, 2002, 78, (4), 501-514 View citations (8)
63. The Cost-Effectiveness of Conservation Payments
    Land Economics, 2002, 78, (3), 339-353 View citations (107)
    See also Working Paper The Cost-Effectiveness of Conservation Payments, Discussion Papers (2000) View citations (1) (2000)
64. The local costs of establishing protected areas in low-income nations: Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
    Ecological Economics, 2002, 43, (2-3), 261-275 View citations (48)

Chapters

2006

1. Experimental Approaches to Understanding Inter-cultural Conflict Over Resources
   Chapter 7 in Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics, 2006