Next Economic Analysis Seminar Series
On Monday January 27th 2025 at 12:00 P.M.
El próximo lunes 27 de enero tendremos un seminario impartido por Jesús Barreiro Hurlé (EU-JRC). El seminario tendrá lugar a las 12:00 en la Sala de Juntas del Edificio 3.
Título: "Experimenting with farmers for better agricultural policy design and implementation"
Resumen: Back in 2015 the JRC highlighted the potential of economic experiments to inform agricultural policy (Colen et al. 2015). Since then the JRC has been actively promoting its use supporting the establishment and consolidation of the REECAP (Research Network on Economic Experiments for the Common Agricultural Policy) network and undertaking experiments with farmers. In this presentation I will showcase two experiments undertaken by myself to inform the design of the 2020-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (Barreiro-Hurle et al. 2023) and to explore behaviourally informed interventions to increase the adoption sustainable agricultural practice by farmers (Barreiro-Hurle and Rommel 2025). In the first paper using lab-in-the-field experiment resembling a dictator game, we show how reduced income support and increased mandatory sustainability requirements affect the willingness to undertake sustainably friendly practices. Find that both changes in the policy will lead to less willingness to contribute to the environment. Based on this finding, the second paper uses a hyper-contextualized lab-in-the-field experiment to test whether behaviourally informed interventions (loss-gain framing; social norms) can revert that decrease. I will finish my presentation identifying areas for future work if we want to fully exploit the potential of experimental and behavioral economics to provide science for policy evidence in the field of agriculture.