In this article, we reflect on "farmer surveys" in three European countries. Exciting to be part of this meta-science exercise. We learned a lot about our surveys. Hopefully, others find this useful. Would not have been possible without the excellent lead of Thomas Slijper. doi.org/10.1111/1477...

Just finished Annika Norlin’s “Colony.” It’s a captivating story about a journalist with burn-out who goes into the woods and encounters a strange commune of outsiders. Very fun to learn about all of their backstories and figure out what happened 🧩

Juli Zeh erklärt wieder, dass ihre Nachbarn keine Rechtsextremen sind. Und dass ist halt mal wieder vollkommen vorbei am Thema. Es ist nämlich total egal, ob die rechtsextrem sind oder nicht oder ob sie eigentlich die Demokratie gut finden, wenn sie mehrheitlich (51,x%) eine Partei wählen, die 1/7

📣Interested in investigating whether/how land users consider soil biodiversity🪱 in their management decisions & what consequences this have for designing incentives? While being part of an interdisciplinary research training group? Apply here⬇️ recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/33...

New paper in the #JARE 📄 🥳 To celebrate 50 years of the Journal of #Agricultural and #Resource #Economics, we contributed our paper "Advancing Agri-Environmental Policy with Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Insights, Innovations, and Future Directions" to the latest special issue. 1/4

A thread of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that look like record covers... because that's EXACTLY what the world needs 1. Huey Lewis and the News: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New substack post by @shonferguson.bsky.social on how to choose Master program in Ag Econ shonferguson.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

Please replicate this in Berlin: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Judging from people's reaction to the pony and ample personal experience with all kinds of events on Berlin public transport, I predict a null result: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Nv...

Extreme weather events can be costly for German farmers, in terms of yield losses and farm efficiency 💸 Here is our most recent publication: doi.org/10.1093/erae... by @moritzhartig.bsky.social, Silke Hüttel & @stefanseifert.bsky.social @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @crc1502-detect.bsky.social

2025 Gorilla update 👋🦍: One student found the gorilla this time around (see details in thread below). BUT, I have an AI-related update that is too good not to share ... #EconSky 📉📈

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Super-cool new paper, using an RCT to estimate the impact of information framing on eco scheme uptake: doi.org/10.1186/s401...

In a new article, we study acceptance of methane-reducing feed additives among Swedish dairy farmers; acceptance is high overall (low willingness-to-accept), i.e., feed additives are a cost-effective GHG mitigation measure in Sweden doi.org/10.1093/erae...

In a new article, we test different behavioral interventions (and combinations) in four EU countries. Null results on "light green" eco-schemes. doi.org/10.1093/erae...

Cool methodological, new paper in #mousetracking in #econ research. #QOpen #agecon #DCE Mouse tracking in a DCE can be a useful and valid tool 🔧 to uncover Hidden decision-processes without interfering with respondents decisionmaking. 💡

Gambetta & Origgi on the LL Game, in which agents prefer to deliver and receive (!) low quality. This paper is absolutely savage but also feels uncomfortably relevant to parts of academia outside of Italy 👀 diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

Call For Papers: Journal of Business Economics – Special Issue – Behavioral Ethics Under Review: Replications and Theoretical Foundations Call for Regular Articles & Registered Reports sbeonline.org/2025/10/call...

Job Alert for PhDs in #Agricultural #Economics 🚨 2 Positions open for PhD-Researchers at the Chair of Agricultural Economics at the University of Rostock with @sebastianlakner.bsky.social . Positions are for German-speaking individuals including teaching activities.

I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

📢 New publication 🚨🚨🚨 I am happy to share a new publication (open access) regarding farmers' intentions to adopt a DSS, combined with data from meteorological stations, for pest management: doi.org/10.1016/j.at... Grateful to my amazing co-authors #agriecon

Welcome to Editorial Express

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Noel Zigrand Hoven & Karine Nyborg document how being observed increases pro-social behaviour but can also create substitution away from non-observable contributions. #EconSky

New article: "Swedish Consumers' Willingness-to-Pay for Plant-Based Proteins in Pasta Sauce: Preferences and Policy Scenarios" doi.org/10.1002/agr....

New DP @i4replication.bsky.social: Meta-analysis on green nudges correcting for publication bias. "Behavioral interventions on households and individuals are unlikely to deliver material climate benefits." www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

❗️Our next workshop will be on Oct 16th, 6 pm CEST titled Structural Bayesian Techniques for Experimental and Behavioral Economics in R& Stan by @jamesbland.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Cool new research piece by Julian Sagebiel, @jensrommel.bsky.social and @qrisschulze.bsky.social about pre-registrations for #DCE. Pre-regs are researchers' commitments to design, research question, hypothesis and data collection and can enhance research transparency.

Heute gibt’s was auf die Ohren: mit Wolfgang Heim spreche ich bei Apokalypse & Filterkaffee über #ZonenDerAngst. @mickybeisenherz.bsky.social Hört doch mal rein. 👇🏽 🎧 💥 apokalypse-und-filterkaffee.podigee.io/1572-heimspi...

Post a favorite econ paper: Lichter et al. (2021, JEEA) @sigginho.bsky.social Regions with higher Stasi spy density in East Germany still show lower trust, lower incomes, higher unemployment, and less entrepreneurship decades after reunification. Open-access link: doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Deadline for Abstracts 15.10.2025. 54th Annual conference Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Sociology (SGA) May 07-08, 2026 at BFH in Zollikofen on “Economic and social resilience in the agricultural and food sector” Further details www.sse-sga.ch/en/sse-sga/m...

Mein Status als „Person mit Migrationshintergrund“ ist ziemlich offensichtlich. Da man es mir (abgesehen vom Namen) aber kaum anmerkt, gehe ich oft genug als „deutsch“ durch. Und auch wenn mir persönlich das ziemlich egal ist, weil ich kein Bedürfnis habe, als „deutsch“ oder „polnisch“...

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science! The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents. Info 👇

Really, really happy to share this new publication by Malin Gütschow and myself on farmers’ identity in the context of multifunctionality 🚜🌾🪲🐦 link.springer.com/article/10.1... A 🧵

Our PCIRR Stage 2 Registered Report now officially accepted by Royal Society Open Science: "Revisiting mental accounting classic paradigms: Replication Registered Report of the problems reviewed in Thaler (1999)" Mengfei Li's remarkable UG RRR thesis. Details 👇🧵

New open access article!

I4R Replication Games coming to Münster! @i4replication.bsky.social @aufdroeseler.bsky.social @fialalenka.bsky.social

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky Fraud and cover-up richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

New article: "Comparing a multi-item Rasch scale for purchase intentions with preference elicitation using experimental auctions for consumer acceptance of biofortified food: An in-store study in Rwanda" doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

We have an open PhD position in the @Land_Economics under the supervision of @DavidWuepper. The position is fully funded for at least 3 years and will contribute to the ERC Starting Grant LAND-POLICY and other exciting projects. Deadline is end of October!

🌍Do all nations believe they’re superior—or do some feel inferior? Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression. 🧵Findings from our 45-country study:

📚 In summer 2023, my book Causal Analysis was published with @mitpress.bsky.social. Just two years later😉 I’m very happy to share that the lecture slides are now freely available in both PDF and LaTeX (as zip files), along with the datasets and R/Python code: 👉 www.unifr.ch/appecon/en/r...

[email protected] & IfW Kiel are jointly 🚨 recruiting a Professor of International Economics🚨 (Associate/Full). 👉 apply.interfolio.com/169770 Great opportunity to join Berlin's thriving econ community. No kings here. Deadline: Sep 30, 2025 Please share widely! #EconSky

It was a great honor and pleasure to give today a keynote at the 15th Congress of the Spanish Association of Agricultural Economics on “Digital Innovations in Agriculture: A Sustainability and Production Economics Perspective” Details #XVCongresoAEEA economiaagroalimentaria.es/en/xv-congre...

Knowing Moritz and Jasper, I am pretty sure this piece is worth a read: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Congrats! And thanks for sending it to the GJAE!

🚨 New paper accepted at Food Policy! 🚨🥳 "The Impact of Animal Welfare Regulations on Pork Trade: Evidence from European Countries" with Anna Wallenbeck, Sigrid Agenäs, and Helena Hansson. 2024 WP link: publications.slu.se?file=publ/sh...

Fellow of the European Association of Agricultural Economists🥳 I am beyond words and incredibly honored to receive the European Association of Agricultural Economists' (EAAE) Fellowship Award, the highest recognition in European agricultural economics. eaae.org/ItemText.asp...

Excellent presentation by Robert Huber on a paper on ‘The Role of Behavioral and Social Factors in Agent-Based Models for Agricultural Policy Evaluations’ at the 18th EAAE Congress in a great session on ‘Behavioural Experimental Methods & Modelling’ @robehube.bsky.social

So true #EAAE2025