Applying Behavioral Insights to Improve Water Security

Paul Ferraro, Kent Messer () and Shang Wu

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2017, vol. 32, issue 4

Abstract: Behavioral insights may provide cost-effective ways to improve the performance and efficiency of agri-environmental programs. We highlight several insights that are well-grounded in theory and experiments from behavioral economics and psychology and describe how these insights might best be applied to solve water-security issues.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.264602

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