
Publications
CBEAR and its network of researchers apply insights from behavioral economics to better understand how and why people make decisions, and this research will ultimately help the USDA and its partners make programs better for farmers.
Publications List
2025
2024
2023
SCIENCE 2023
Create a culture of experiments in environmental programs
Ferraro, P.J., T.L. Cherry, J.F. Shogren, C.A. Vossler, T.N. Cason, H. Byerly Flint, J.P. Hochard, O. Johansson-Stenman, P. Martinsson, J.J. Murphy, S.C. Newbold, L. Thunstrom, D. Van Soest, K. Van T'Veld, A. Dannenberg, G.F. Loewenstein, L. Van Boven
APPLIED ECONOMICS PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
Perspectives on Stakeholder Participation in the Design of Economic Experiments for Agricultural Policymaking: Pros, Cons, and Twelve Recommendations for Researchers
Höhler, J., J. Barreiro-Hurlé, M. Czajkowski, F.J. Dessart, P.J. Ferraro, T. Li, K.D. Messer, L. Palm-Forster, M. Termansen, F. Thomas, K. Zagórska, K.H. Zemo, and J. Rommel.
2022
2021
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 2021
Making More Effective Use of Behavioral Science in Conservation Interventions
Balmford, A, Bradbury, R., Bauer, JM, Broad, S., Burgess, G., Burgman, M., Byerly, H., Clayton, S., Espelosin, D., Ferraro, PJ, Fisher, B., Garnett, EE, Jones, JPG, Marteau, T., Otieno, M., Polasky, S., Ricketts, TH, Sandbrook, C., Trevelyan, R., van der Linden, S., Veríssimo, D., and Nielsen, KS.
PLoS ONE 2021
Conservation Outreach that Acknowledges Human Contributions to Climate Change does not Inhibit Action by U.S. Farmers: Evidence from a large randomized controlled trial embedded in a federal program on soil health
Ferraro, PJ, J Fooks, R Iovanna, J Larson, B Meiselman, M. Kecinski, K Messer, and
M Wilson.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOR 2021
Biodiversity Conservation as a Promising Frontier for Behavioral Science
Nielsen, K. S., Marteau, T., Bauer, JM, Bradbury, RB, Broad, S., Burgess, G., Burgman, M., Byerly, H., Clayton, S., Espelosin, D., Ferraro, PJ, Fisher, B., Garnett, EE, Jones, JPG, Otieno, M., Polasky, S., Ricketts, TH, Trevelyan, R., van der Linden, S., Veríssimo, D., and Balmford, A.