The value added of experimental approaches
The value added by experimental approaches for agricultural economics and agricultural policy evaluation
Using farmers' ex ante preferences to design agri-environmental contracts: A systematic review
By Christoph Schulze, Katarzyna Zagórska, Kati Häfner, Olimpia Markiewicz, Mikołaj Czajkowski and Bettina Matzdorf
Journal of Agricultural Economics, Online Version (2023)
Discrete choice experiments are becoming more and more popular for ex ante policy design. In this paper, we provide a systematic literature review of studies dealing with DCEs for ex ante contract design of agri-environmental climate measures.
Enriching the CAP evaluation toolbox with experimental approaches: introduction to the special issue
By Sophie Thoyer and Raphaële Préget
European Review of Agricultural Economics, Volume 46, Issue 3 (2019)
Despite the success of experimental approaches for policy advice in public economics, their mobilization in agricultural policy design and evaluation has remained surprisingly limited. Economic experiments (discrete choice experiments, laboratory experiments, field experiments and randomized controlled trials) are at the forefront of these recent methodological developments.
The aim of this special issue is to present the work of a community of researchers willing to find path-breaking ways of improving the evaluation of CAP proposals thanks to experimental approaches, so as to strengthen a fruitful ongoing debate with European policy-makers on the interest and validity of experimental approaches to policy evaluation.
Economic Experiments as a Tool for Agricultural Policy Evaluation: Insights from the European CAP
By Liesbeth Colen ; Sergio Gomez y Paloma ; Uwe Latacz‐Lohmann ; Marianne Lefebvre ; Raphaële Préget ; Sophie Thoyer
Canadian journal of Agricultural Economics (2016)
This article assesses the potential contribution of economic experiments to evidence‐based policy making in the field of agriculture, with a special focus on the European Union (EU)'s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Agriculture and Behavioral Science: Emerging Orientations
By William S. Saint and E. Walter Coward Jr
Science (1977)
In 1977 already, some scholars were convinced by the contributions which behavioral scientists can make to agricultural development!
Contract Design for Adoption of Agrienvironmental Practices: A Meta-analysis of Discrete Choice Experiments
Fateh Mamine, M'hand Fares, Jean Joseph Minviel
Ecological Economics, Volume 176, 2020
REECAP would like to support replication and meta-analysis of experiments related to agricultural policies. Here is a recent article presenting a meta-analysis of contract attributes for the adoption of agri-environmental practices.