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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...

"speaking so that policymakers will listen isn’t an art form: there are specific things you can do to improve your odds of success" 👇

Join us in India next year for the conference of the international association of agricultural economists: icae2024.in/home/ I will give one of the keynotes