Research

Working and Discussion Papers

A global yield gap assessment to link land degradation to socioeconomic risks

Hadi and Wuepper (2025)

Policies that improved land conditions

Wuepper et al. (2025)

Institutions and Global Crop Yields

Wuepper, Wang, Schlenker, Jain, Finger (2023)

Land Restoration and Social Context: Opportunities for Successful Land Restoration

G20 Global Land Initiative (2023)

Publications

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Liu, Huang, Wang, Liu, and Wuepper (2026)

TBA

Hadi, Ray, Borrelli, Gerber, Shokri, Roman, and Wuepper (2026)

Performance of reward, punishment, and communication in common-pool resource management: Evidence from grassland conservation in China

Liu, Jiang, Liu, Wang, Nie, Huang, and Wuepper (2026)

Agri-environmental policies have reduced cropland degradation globally

Dureti, Hadi, and Wuepper (2026)

From technological fixes to systemic change: Vision-led innovation for Europe's crop farming systems

Wuepper, Möhring, Cord, Meijide, Storm, Qaim, Heckelei, Börner, Hadi, Kulhmann, Stachniss, Ewert (2026)

Harnessing satellite data for the next generation of agri-environmental policies

Wuepper, Wegner, Mileva, Bouchat, Chen, Ortiz-Bobea & Finger (2026)

Estimating causal effects with observational data: Guidelines for agricultural and applied economists

Henningsen, Low, Wuepper, Dalhaus, Storm, Belay, & Hirsch (2025)

Satellite Data in Agricultural and Environmental Economics: Theory and Practice

Wuepper, Oluoch, Hadi (2025)

World Heritage Status and Farmers’ Income: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design in Colombia

Rodriguez, Vrachioli, Wuepper, and Sauer (2025)

Agri-environmental policies from 1960 to 2022

Wuepper, Wiebecke, Meier, Vogelsanger, Bramato, Fürholz, Finger (2024)

Measuring Farmer Time Preferences: A Systematic Literature Review for Europe and North America

Wuepper, Henzmann, Finger (2023)

Public Policies and Global Forest Conservation: Empirical Evidence from National Borders

Wuepper, Crowther, Lauber, Routh, Le Clec'h, Garrett, Börner (2023)

Culture and agricultural biodiversity conservation

Wang, Schaub, Wuepper, Finger (2023)

Economics of Ecosystem Restoration

Mirzabaev and Wuepper (2023)

Agricultural systems and biodiversity: evidence from European borders and bird populations

Engist, Finger, Knaus, Guelat, Wuepper (2023)

Regression Discontinuity Designs in Agricultural and Environmental Economics

Wuepper and Finger (2023)

Behavioral Agricultural Economics

Wuepper, Bukchin, Just, Zilberman (2023)

National Leverage Points to Reduce Global Pesticide Pollution

Wuepper, Tang, Finger (2023)

Comparing Impacts and Return on Investment of Action- and Results-Based Agri-Environmental Payments in Switzerland

Wuepper & Huber (2022)

six research priorities to support corporate due-dilligence policies

Sellare, Börner, Brugger, Garrett, Günther, Meemken, Pelli, Steinhübel & Wuepper (2022)

Preferences, personality, aspirations, and farmer behavior

Knapp, Wuepper, and Finger (2021)

The (in)stability of farmer risk preferences

Finger, McCallum, Wuepper

(2022)

The role of non-cognitive skills in farmers’ adoption of climate change mitigation measures

Kreft, Huber, Wuepper, Finger (2021)

A ‘Debt’ Based Approach to Land Degradation as an Indicator of Global Change

Wuepper and Borrelli, Panagos, Crowther, Lauber, Thomas, Robinson ( 2021)

Does it matter who advises farmers? Pest management choices with public and private extension

Wuepper, Roleff, and Finger (2021)

Does Family Farming Reduce Rural Unemployment?

Wuepper, Wimmer, Sauer ( 2021)

Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)

Borrelli, Robinson, Panagos, Lugato, Yang, Alewell, Wuepper, Montanarella, & Ballabio (2020)

Revisiting the diversification and insurance relationship: Differences between on- and off-farm strategies

Knapp, Wuepper, Dalhaus, and Finger (2021)

Countries influence the trade-off between crop yields and nitrogen pollution

Wuepper, LeClech, Mueller, Zilberman, and Finger (2020)

Countries and the global rate of soil erosion

Wuepper, Borrelli, Finger (2020)

Does Culture affect Soil Erosion? Empirical Evidence from Europe

Wuepper (2020)

Is Small Family Farming More Environmentally Sustainable? Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design in Germany

Wuepper, Wimmer, Sauer (2020)

Quantifying the soil erosion legacy of the former Soviet Union

Wuepper, Borreli, Mueller, Finger (2020)

Non-cognitive skills and climate change adaptation: empirical evidence from Ghana’s pineapple farmers

Wuepper, Zilberman, Sauer (2020)

Why farmers deviate from recommended pesticide timing: The role of uncertainty and information

Möhring, Wuepper, Musa, Finger (2020)

Ancestral Ways of Life and Human Capital Formation in Kenya

Wuepper, Lang, Benjamin (2020)

Positive cascading effect of restoring forests

Borrelli, Panagos, Wuepper (2020)

Data on farmers’ adoption of climate change mitigation measures (...) in a region of Switzerland

Kreft, Huber, Wuepper, Finger (2020)

Does information change German consumers’ attitudes about genetically modified food?

Wuepper, Wree, Ardali (2019)

The preference for sustainable coffee and a new approach for dealing with hypothetical bias

Wuepper, Clemm, Wree (2019)

Sustainable intensification amongst Ghana's pineapple farmers: the complexity of an innovation determines the effectiveness of its training

Wuepper, Sauer, Kleemann (2018)

Social Capital, Income Diversification and Climate Change Adaptation: Panel Data Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Wuepper, Yesigat Ayenew, Sauer (2018)

Perceived self-efficacy, poverty, and economic development

Wuepper, Lybbert (2017)

Investigating rice farmers’ preferences for an agri-environmental scheme: Is an eco-label a substitute for payments?

Chang, Wuepper, Heissenhuber, Sauer (2017)

The World Heritage list: Which sites promote the brand? A big data spatial econometrics approach

Wuepper, Patry (2017)

Moving Forward in Rural Ghana: Investing in Social and Human Capital Mitigates Historical Constraints

Wuepper and Sauer (2017)

Explaining the performance of contract farming in Ghana: The role of self-efficacy and social capital

Wuepper & Sauer (2016)

What is the value of world heritage status for a German national park? A choice experiment from Jasmund, 1 year after inscription

Wuepper (2017)

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