The Land Economics Group at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn will soon publish another PhD vacancy (fully funded for the entire duration, on global smart farming diffusion and impacts). Funded by the Cluster of Excellence "PhenoRob" Application Deadline will be end of November!

☝️

Next week, the @Land_Economics Group @UniBonn will publish a funded, open PhD position. The research should focus on land, optimally combine satellite data and causal inference, and personality-wise, the person should enjoy being creative and working in a team. Link in response.

Submit your papers for this years EAAE Congress in Bonn *Deadline is February 10* www.ilr1.uni-bonn.de/eaaecongress...

We have just published a new working paper / preprint: "Estimating Causal Effects with Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists" (with Guy Low, @davidwuepper.bsky.social, Tobias Dalhaus, Hugo Storm, Dagim Belay, and Stefan Hirsch): econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:foi:wp...

New ILR Working Paper: Agricultural Mechanization Around the World (Roman, Hadi, Wuepper 2024) For the first time, we now have a globally comprehensive and comparable dataset on agricultural mechanization (based on ML): ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/34836...

If you happen to be in #Bonn and want to attend an interdisciplinary Seminar talk (in German) on how to sustainably feed a population of 10 Billion people: drop by tomorrow: lifeethics.uni-bonn.de/veranstaltun... Image

Submit a paper to the Conference of The Agricultural Economics Society (at Bordeaux School of Economics): aes.ac.uk/annual-confere… This year's Masterclass will be given by me: Regression Discontinuity Designs in Agricultural and Environmental Economics academic.oup.com/erae/article/5 

Interesting comment by current and former colleagues across universities: Innovations for pesticide application must consider environmental impact www.nature.com/articles/s43...

award for young researchers working on land conservation and restoration. Deadline is November 22 👇 @land-economics.bsky.social www.unccdcop16.org/Scientific-E...

We are recruiting three PhD students to work with us on a new project on agricultural innovation adoption and impacts in Vietnam. We provide full funding and exciting international opportunities. Please spread the word and apply by 6 Dec 2024. Details: www.zef.de/header/vacan...

After a long break, we are back and will post updates here soon. visit our website in the meantime: www.ilr1.uni-bonn.de/en/research/...

New publication in Nature Food: A large new database of agri-environmental policies (open access) 👇

Looking forward to the webinar of ZEF_Bonn on Economics of Land Degradation (Feb 21st) 👇 Register here: www.zef.de/media-center...

Where does the modern state come from? Economists attempt to answer a profound political question www.economist.com/finance-and-...

The future of research on sustainable food systems: Building an early-career network of agricultural economists in Europe onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our paper 'Measuring farmer time preferences: A systematic literature review for Europe and North America' is now assigned to an issue in JAAEA Led by @davidwuepper.bsky.social with Severin Henzmann Paper doi.org/10.1002/jaa2... Blog (German) agrarpolitik-blog.com/2023/12/08/d...

New Paper: Public Policies and Global Forest Conservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The economics of growing threats to biodiversity worldwide: nber.org/papers/w31952

Warum es volkswirtschaftlich kompletter Unsinn ist entwässerte Moore landwirtschaftlich 🚜 zu nutzen & warum der Moor-Klimaschutz dem Braunkohleausstieg 🏭 eigentlich in nix nachsteht und daher ähnlich angegangen werden müsste. 👉 Super Interview mit dem Agrarökonom @haraldgrethe.bsky.social

Measuring farmer time preferences: A systematic literature review for Europe and North America New open access paper with Robert Finger and Severin Henzmann doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.97

📍new paper: H. Kamau (ZEF Bonn), S. Roman (Land Economics Group Uni Bonn), & L. Biber-Freudenberger (ZEF Bonn): Nearly half of the world is suitable for diversified farming for sustainable intensification: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🚜Agricultural Innovation Experts: We are conducting a 🌎survey on the adoption / profitability of high-tech Ag Innovations. The survey is short (4 Qs) & incl. a world map. There is also a reward. Send me an email for the link! Please incl. explanation what makes you an expert! 🛰️

Hi All 🙋‍♂️ I am looking for good examples of research in agricultural and resource economics that uses satellite data in any(!) way. Please share your favorites and your own! 🙏

Growth of renewables, improved energy efficiency and electrification account for almost three-quarters (72%) of the total CO2 emissions cuts needed by 2030. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-deals...

"There is a growing consensus among economists to keep the social discount rate around 2 per cent. Now, a new international study shows that many philosophers with expertise on the topic share this recommendation". Great multidisciplinary view on climate policy. 📉📈 #ClimateSky #EnvEcon

I am looking for a room or an apartment in #Munich starting in January and for three months. It’s for an economics student who will do an internship at the @ifo_Institut. Thanks! 🏡🏘️🏠

Our review article on behavioral agricultural economics has now appeared in print and Is still open access well: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JEC7GD...

A checklist for difference-in-differences practitioners www.jonathandroth.com/assets/files... from Roth, Sant’Anna, Bilinski, & Poe (Section 6 includes discussion of triple differences, changes-in-changes, and more.)

BREAKING: We are hiring 👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓! We offer 6 assistant professorships, 2 of them tenure track: - Environmental Econ (TT) - Gender Econ (TT) - Behavioral Econ - International Econ - Political Economy - Applied Microeconometrics/Health Econ Apply at econjobmarket.org/positions?sh... #econjobmarket

Inspiring presentations and discussions at this year‘s ETH Food Day. Here the session on grasslands with Valentin Klaus et al. 👌👏

New Postdoc Vacancy in Agricultural Economics in the new group of Niklas Möhring 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/niklas...

Very nice special issue on behavioral agricultural economics in Food Policy out now👇 also with a contribution by Yanbing Wang, Sergei Schaub, me, and @robertfinger.bsky.social

Niklas Möhring, my former colleague at ETH Zurich, has become once more my current colleague, now at the University of Bonn 🍾😊

Neue Seminarreihe an der @UniBonn zum Thema Nachhaltigkeit, u.a. mit Vorträgen von @hendrik_hakenes, @WolframBarfuss, und vielen Weiteren 👇

Applications are open for our EU joint Master in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Policy Analysis (AFEPA) ilr1.uni-bonn.de/afepa/en/application-admission

We have open student assistant positions at the Land Economics Group (for students currently enrolled at a German University): lnkd.in/eJtHSRJx lnkd.in/e_jeUkiZ

looking forward to presenting our group's research on the profitability of different agricultural innovations at the #PhenoRob Seminar on Friday 20 from 10 to 12. Zoom Link and details here: www.inres.uni-bonn.de/de/inres/ver... #Land_Economics_Group #UniBonn

We are currently discussing new #AgEconMeet Sessions. Any #Suggestions? sites.google.com/view/ageconm...

Exciting: Google Data Commons is using AI to make the world’s public data more accessible and helpful: m.youtube.com/watch?v=O6iV...

Economics of Ecosystem Restoration Alisher Mirzabaev and I provide a theory-informed understanding of the economics of ecosystem restoration, the empirical evidence what kinds of policies work best, and we suggest key areas for future research #Open Access: www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Agroecology for a Sustainable Agriculture and Food System: From Local Solutions to Large-Scale Adoption Our paper led by Frank Ewert, with Roland Baatz is now published in the Annual Review of Resource Economics #OpenAccess www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....

Culture and agricultural biodiversity conservation New policy brief based on our paper in Food Policy led by Yanbing Wang, with Sergei Schaub & @davidwuepper.bsky.social Policy Brief: www.agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2023/09/c... Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...