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Paul J. Ferraro

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor | Carey Business School | Bloomberg School of Public Health and Whiting School of Engineering | Johns Hopkins University

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November 21, 2024

Do the Effects of Social Nudges Persist? Theory and evidence from 38 natural field experiments→

November 21, 2024/ ScienceSites

Brandon, A., Ferraro, PJ, J. List, R. Metcalfe. M Price, F Rundhammer, and M Price. Working paper. (Revise and Resubmit Review of Economic Studies)

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November 21, 2024/ ScienceSites/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference & Impact Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs, Water & Energy
December 31, 2023

Behavioral Biases among Producers: Experimental evidence of anchoring in procurement auctions→

December 31, 2023/ ScienceSites

Ferraro, PJ, K Messer, P Shukla, C Weigel. 2024. The Review of Economics & Statistics. Preprint. Data and Code

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December 31, 2023/ ScienceSites/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy
April 04, 2022

Social Comparisons and Groundwater Use: Evidence from Colorado and Kansas→

April 04, 2022/ Ashley Meller

Hrozencik, A, J Suter, PJ Ferraro, N Hendricks. 2022. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Pre-registered Analysis Plan. Pre-print.

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April 04, 2022/ Ashley Meller/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs, Water & Energy
October 02, 2021

A Reassessment of the Potential for Loss-Framed Incentive Contracts to Increase Productivity: A meta-analysis and real-effort experiment→

October 02, 2021/ Ashley Meller

Ferraro, PJ, JD Tracy. 2022. Experimental Economics. Data and Code, Older Version of Paper (Aug 2021)

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October 02, 2021/ Ashley Meller/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy
March 30, 2020

A Story Induces Greater Environmental Contributions than a Scientific Information among Political Liberals but not Conservatives→

March 30, 2020/ Ashley Meller

Byerly, H, PJ Ferraro, T Li, K Messer, C Weigel. 2021. One Earth. Infographic / Published Article / Data&Code

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March 30, 2020/ Ashley Meller/ /Source
Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs, Forests, Causal Inference & Impact Evaluation
March 29, 2020

The Effect of Peer Comparisons on Polluters: A Randomized Field Experiment among Wastewater Dischargers→

March 29, 2020/ Paul Ferraro

Earnhart, D, PJ Ferraro. 2020. Environmental and Resource Economics Published version here Material and Methods here

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Working Papers
Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation, Regulation & Enforcement, Water & Energy
July 01, 2019

Exposure-Enhanced Goods and Technology Disadoption: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial with resource-conserving technologies→

July 01, 2019/ Guest User

Alpízar, F, M Bernedo, PJ Ferraro, B Meiselman. Working paper.

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July 01, 2019/ Guest User/ /Source
Working Papers
Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation
March 27, 2019

Nudging Organizations: Evidence from two large-scale field experiments

March 27, 2019/ Ashley Meller

Ferraro, PJ, C. Weigel, K Messer, J Fan. Working Paper.

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March 27, 2019/ Ashley Meller/
Working Papers, Research in Progress
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation
December 21, 2018

High discount rates by private actors undermine climate change adaptation policies→

December 21, 2018/ ScienceSites

Alpízar, F, M. Bernedo, R. Cremades, PJ Ferraro [corr]. 2023. Climate Risk Management 40, 100488. Data/Code

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December 21, 2018/ ScienceSites/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Water & Energy
December 20, 2018

Informational nudges in conservation auctions: A field experiment with U.S. farmers→

December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller

Wallander, S, L Paul, PJ Ferraro, K Messer, R Iovanna. 2023. Food Policy.

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December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs, Regulation & Enforcement
December 20, 2018

Do the Means Matter for Public Support of Environmental Action? A Large-Scale Field Experiment in Financial Support for Enforcement, Alternative Livelihoods, and Market-Based Incentive Programs

December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller

Ferraro, PJ. In Progress.

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December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller/
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs, Forests
December 20, 2018

What Happens When Everyone Knows Behavioral Economics? Implications for the Behavioral Sciences and Policy Design

December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller

Shukla, P, PJ Ferraro, JD Tracy, T Li, K Messer, C Weigel. In Progress.

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December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller/
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy
December 20, 2018

A Field Experiment to Estimate the Effects of Anchoring and Framing on Residents' Willingness to Purchase Water Runoff Management Technologies→

December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller

Li, T, J Fooks, K Messer, PJ Ferraro. 2021. Resources and Energy Economics (available online)

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December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs, Water & Energy
December 20, 2018

Aligning Evidence Generation and Use Across Health, Development and Environment→

December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller

Tallis, H., et al. 2019. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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December 20, 2018/ Ashley Meller/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs
December 18, 2018

Time and Risk Preferences of Individuals, Married Couples and Unrelated Pairs→

December 18, 2018/ ScienceSites

M Bernedo, F Alpizar, PJ Ferraro. 2021. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

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December 18, 2018/ ScienceSites/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy
December 02, 2018

Experimental Evidence on Supplemental Instruction in Difficult College Courses→

December 02, 2018/ ScienceSites

Ferraro, PJ and J Manzella. Working paper.

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December 02, 2018/ ScienceSites/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy
December 02, 2018

Testing Competing Behavioral Hypotheses of Pollution Control Among Private Firms: A Randomized Field Experiment in the Watershed Discharge Sector

December 02, 2018/ ScienceSites

Earnhart, D and PJ Ferraro. In progress.

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December 02, 2018/ ScienceSites/
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference & Impact Evaluation, Regulation & Enforcement, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs, Water & Energy
December 02, 2018

Protecting Nature for Its Own Sake or for Humans? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial on Coupled Natural-Human Systems

December 02, 2018/ ScienceSites

Aminpour, P, G. Waterfield, F Micheli, Ferraro, PJ*. In progress.

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December 02, 2018/ ScienceSites/
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs
December 01, 2018

Behavioral and Experimental Agri-environmental Research: Methodological Challenges, Literature Gaps, and Recommendations →

December 01, 2018/ Ashley Meller

Palm-Forster, L., PJ Ferraro, N Janusch, C Vossler, K Messer. 2019 Environmental and Resource Economics 72: 1573-1502. Also see the entire ERE special issue, coordinated by CBEAR..

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December 01, 2018/ Ashley Meller/ /Source
Research in Progress, Working Papers
Behavioral Science & Policy, Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation, Evidenced-Based Environmental Programs
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Publications
Behavioral Biases among Producers: Experimental evidence of anchoring in procurement auctions

Ferraro, PJ, K Messer, P Shukla, C Weigel. 2024. The Review of Economics & Statistics. Preprint. Data and Code

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Create a Culture of Experiments in Environmental Programs

Ferraro, PJ, T Cherry, J Shogren, C Vossler, T Cason, H Byerly Flint, J Hochard, O Johansson-Stenman, P Martinsson, J Murphy, S Newbold, L Thunstrom, D van Soest, K van't Veld, A Dannenberg, G Loewenstein, L van Boven. 2023. Science. Pre-print (the link above to final publication should be available to everyone regardless of whether they have a subscription and so pre-print link shouldn’t be necessary)

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Clarifying the Effect of Biodiversity on Productivity in Natural Ecosystems with Longitudinal Data and Methods for Causal Inference

Dee, L [corr], PJ Ferraro [corr], C Severen,  K Kimmel, ET Borer, J Byrnes, A Clark, Y Hautier, A Hector, X Raynaud, PB Reich, AJ Wright, CA Arnillas, KF Davies, A MacDougall, A Mori, MD Smith, PB Adler, JD Bakker, K Brauman, J Cowles, K Komatsu, JMH Knops, RL McCulley, JL Moore, JW Morgan, T Ohlert, SA Power, LL Sullivan, C Stevens, M Loreau. 2023. Nature Communications . Supplemental Information. Data and Code. [Featured by Editors and Commentary by Runge]

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Unraveling Complex Causal Processes that Affect Sustainability Requires More Integration between Empirical and Modeling Approaches.

Schlüter, M, C Brelsford, PJ Ferraro, M. Smith. K. Orach, M. Qiu. 2023. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Input Efficiency as a Solution to Externalities and Resource Scarcity: a randomized controlled trial

Alpízar, F, M Bernedo, and PJ Ferraro. 2024. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 11(1). Online Appendix. Data and Code. Preprint. Editor’s Choice Press Release.

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Synthesizing Evidence in Sustainability Science Through Harmonized Experiments: Community monitoring in common pool resources

Ferraro, PJ, Agrawal, A. 2021. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Press Release. Video. Special Issue

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Conditional Cash Transfers to Alleviate Poverty also Reduced Deforestation in Indonesia

Ferraro, PJ and R Simorangkir. 2020. Science Advances 6(24). Data/Code / Infographic / BBC-PRI “The World” segment / One of The Guardian’s Scientific Breakthrough of 2020

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Causal Effect of Impervious Cover on Annual Flood Magnitude for the United States

Blum, AG, PJ Ferraro, KR Ryberg, SA Archfield. 2020. Geophysical Research Letters 47(5) Data and Analysis Code

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Causal Inference in Coupled Human and Natural Systems

Ferraro, PJ, JN Sanchirico, and MD Smith. 2019.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116: 5311-5318

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The Impacts of a Capacity-Building Workshop in a Randomized Adaptation Project

Alpízar, F, M. Bernedo, PJ Ferraro, B Meiselman. 2019. Nature Climate Change 9: 587–591. Also see associated News & Views and Behind the Paper blog. Data/Code PrePrint of Article

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A Better Way to Agree to Stop Climate Change

Ferraro, PJ. Bloomberg View, Op-ed, 29 January 2019

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