Last week, the policy brief (with Petyo Bonev) for our paper in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, titled "The Effect of Result-Based Agri-Environmental Payments on Biodiversity: Evidence from Switzerland" (doi.org/10.1111/ajae...), was published.

Das Design von Programmen zur Verbesserung der Biodiversität in Agrarlandschaften ist nicht trivial. Worauf man achten muss und wie man bessere Ergebnisse erzielen kann, zeigen @seschaub.bsky.social et al: DOI 10.1111/ajae.12512 Zusammengefasst hier ↘️ agrarpolitik-blog.co...

let us all read about dynamical bias in the coin toss www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/...

This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.

Agroscope (Switzerland) is hiring a group leader for the Socioeconomics Research group (agricultural economics, rural sociology or related research area) jobs.admin.ch/offene-stell...

Some of the most important lottery anomalies from the behavioral risk literature (e.g., probability weighting and loss aversion) actually have nothing to do with risk. They also arise in perfectly deterministic settings. Lead article in the latest AER issue: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

👇 👏 important insights on how much (or little) policies are based research. (I would be curious if this also applies to other fields/setting)

All policy is politics! Really cool work by @mrao.bsky.social

A very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959 It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up! Cool and empirically relevant stuff!