Using monetary incentives in agri-environmental policies: Can we do more with less?

Les incitations monétaires dans la politique agro-environnementale: peut-on faire mieux avec moins ?

Gilles Grolleau (), Naoufel Mzoughi and Sophie Thoyer ()

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Abstract: Monetary (dis)incentives generally constitute the cornerstone of agri-environmental policies, in order to encourage individuals to adopt (reduce) socially (un)desirable behaviors. Nevertheless, in a context of limited financial resources, the effectiveness of these policies is increasingly questioned. Using insights from behavioral economics, we show that it is possible to improve the effectiveness of agri-environmental measures by taking into account behavioral biases in their design and implementation. We focus our attention on loss aversion, crowding-out effects, positional concerns, social norms, and the timing and origin of incentives.

Keywords: incentives; loss aversion; crowding out; behavioral economics; incitations; agro-environnement; normes sociales; économie comportementale; effets d’éviction; aversion à la perte; agri-environment; social norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement - Review of agricultural and environmental studies, 2015, 96 (2), pp.241-257

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