Publications

Fabri, C., Schaub, S., Van Passel, S. & Dalhaus, T. (2026). Assessing Omitted Variable Bias in Ricardian models’ Estimates of Climate Change Impacts. Environmental and Resource Economics.

Kunkel, J., et al.  (2026). From scarcity to strategy: Designing hay markets to mitigate feed shortages and income shocks. Ecological Economics.

Alou, N., Schaub, S., Suter, M., Lüscher, A., & Finger, R. (2026). Plant diversity to cope with increased drought risk in grasslands. Ecological Economics.

Alou, N., Schaub, S., Quaas, M., & Finger R. (2025). Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 

Schaub, S., Pfaff, A., & Petyo, B. (2025). Biodiversity and the design of result-based payments: Evidence from Germany. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Schaub, S., Tobias R., & Petyo B. (2025). The effect of result‐based agri‐environmental payments on biodiversity: Evidence from Switzerland. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 

Meyer, M., Schaub, S., & Bonev, P. (2025). Woody plant encroachment, grassland loss, and farm subsidies. Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Schaub, S., et al. (2025). Optimizing land-use strategies to improve grassland multifunctionality. Land Use Policy. 

Möhring, N.,* Muller, A., & Schaub, S.* (2024). Farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture—a systematic global literature review. European Review of Agricultural Economics.

* These author contributed equally.

Fabri, C., Vermeulen, S., Van Passel, S., & Schaub, S. (2024). Crop diversification and the effect of weather shocks on Italian farmers' income and income risk. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 

Klaus, V. H., Schaub, S., Séchaud, R., Fabian, Y., Jeanneret, P., Lüscher, A., & Huguenin-Elie, O. (2024). Upscaling of ecosystem service and biodiversity indicators from field to farm to inform agri-environmental decision-and policy-making. Ecological Indicators. 

Sergei Schaub & Nadja El Benni (2024). How do price (risk) changes influence farmers’ preferences to reduce fertilizer application?. Agricultural Economics.

Sander, A., Ghazoul, J., Finger, R., & Schaub, S. (2024). Participation in individual and collective agri-environmental schemes: A synthesis using the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Journal of Rural Studies.

Wang, Y., Schaub, S., Wuepper, D.,  & Finger, R. (2023). Culture and agricultural biodiversity conservation. Food Policy.

Schaub., S. et al. (2023). The role of behavioural factors and opportunity costs in farmers' participation in voluntary agri-environmental schemes: A systematic review. Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Elmiger, N.,* Finger, F., Ghazoul, J., & Schaub, S.* (2023). Biodiversity indicators for result-based agri-environmental schemes – Current state and future prospects. Agricultural Systems.

* These author contributed equally.

Schaub, S. (2022). Global relationships between time preference and environmental policy performance. Environmental Science & Policy.

Abstract: How our governments deal with environmental crises can depend on national culture, including time preference (i.e., short- vs. long-term orientation). Here, we follow up on the hypothesis that long-term orientation increases environmental...

Schaub, S., Robert Finger, Nina Buchmann, Vera Steiner, & Valentin H Klaus (2021). The costs of diversity: higher prices for more diverse grassland seed mixtures. Environmental Research Letters.

Schaub, S., et al. (2021). Reply to: “Results from a biodiversity experiment fail to represent economic performance of semi-natural grasslands”. Nature Communications.

Schaub, S., Huber, R., & Finger, R. (2020). Tracking societal concerns on pesticides – a Google Trends analysis. Environmental Research Letters.

Schaub S. & Finger, R (2020). Effects of drought on hay and feed grain prices. Environmental Research Letters.

Schaub, S., Buchmann, N., Lüscher, A., & Finger R. (2020). Economic benefits from plant species diversity in intensively managed grasslands. Ecological Economics. 

Schaub, S. et al. (2020). Plant diversity effects on forage quality, yield and revenues of semi-natural grasslands. Nature Communications.