Johannes Linde

Farmer Identity and risk preferences in Farmers' Choices Between Public and Private Agri-Environmental Contracts Abstract:European farmers' preferences for voluntary agri-environmental contracts are often heterogene-ous and can be influenced by behavioural factors. In our study, we investigate how farmer identity and risk preferences are related to preferences for agri-environment contracts in the UK, France, and the Netherlands. Using data from a discrete choice experiment and a sample of 767 farmers, we identify a statistically significant, but non-robust, effect showing that a stronger relative productivist farmer identity is associated with a higher preference for contracts organised by retail companies over those organised by governments. Furthermore, results show that a stronger relative productivist identity reduces the likelihood to participate in the proposed agri-environment contracts.

Wuhuu, Publication Alert! 📣 My first, first-author article (and first chapter of my dissertation), ‘Farmer Identity and Risk Preferences in Farmers' Choices Between Public and Private Agri-Environmental Contracts’, is now published #openaccess in #QOpen. 🔑🔒 1/9

Rechtzeitig zur #Landtagswahl: eine neue Version von „Immigration and Nationalism in the Long Run“
(mit schneiderst.de/)

-> Die historischen Erfahrungen mit Einwanderung wirken sich dort bis heute auf die Wahlergebnisse der #AfD aus. <-

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

New paper out in Energy Policy on solar home systems (SHS) in rural Pakistan.

With Marco Nilgen and @jlinde.bsky.social we follow a large SHS programme in rural Sindh ~10 years after rollout and ask:

When does early “access” become sustained i.e., a system that still works and is used years later?

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

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Huh I wonder if there were any other global events happening in in 2008. Guess we’ll never know.

Advancing Agri-Environmental Policy with Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Insights, Innovations, and Future Directions In recent years, behavioral and experimental economics have increasingly shaped agrienvironmental research by revealing how farmers navigate complex decisions. This article reviews key developments in three areas: behavioral insights into farmers’ social, temporal, and risk preferences and identities, norms, and motivations; experimental methods for assessing behavior and policy impacts; and methodological advances enhancing scientific rigor. We highlight contributions to more behaviorally informed agri-environmental policies, including nudges, participatory approaches, and innovative schemes. Looking forward, priorities include large-scale collaborative studies, stronger stakeholder involvement, and integrating behavioral evidence into policymaking, addressing challenges such as farmer fatigue, to design adaptive, effective, and legitimate policies. Copyright: JARE

New paper in the #JARE 📄 🥳

To celebrate 50 years of the Journal of #Agricultural and #Resource #Economics, we contributed our paper "Advancing Agri-Environmental Policy with Behavioral and Experimental Economics: Insights, Innovations, and Future Directions" to the latest special issue. 1/4

Wolves FTW!

"Wolves reduce the share of animal [vehicle] collisions by 38 percent, reducing risk to human life and property."

www.nber.org/papers/w34377

Screenshot of abstract and title, follow link for text access

Super-cool new paper, using an RCT to estimate the impact of information framing on eco scheme uptake: doi.org/10.1186/s401...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision @nature.com 🧪🎓

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Würde gerne noch „Einnorden - und Orientierung wiedererlangen“ auf die Vorschlagsliste setzen. Slogans sind wichtig.

Hab aber gehört, Rudern stärkt das Rückgrat.

Now out in Party Politics 🎉

Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing.
👉 A legitimisation effect.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Now, my repost feels like confirmation bias at its finest. But no regrets

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

<em>Journal of Agricultural Economics</em> | Wiley Online Library This study investigates farmer preferences for publicly and privately financed agri-environmental contracts. Using a labelled Discrete Choice Experiment with 366 German grassland farmers, we examine ...

Thrilled to share a new paper in the Journal of Agricultural Economics! With SRUC & iDiv, we use a labelled DCE to assess how farmer identities shape institutional preferences for privately financed grassland AECM.

doi.org/10.1111/1477...

🔥 The never-ending narrative…
This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry.

Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

Wie können die lokalen Vor- und Nachteile des Ausbaus erneuerbarer Energien räumlich gerecht verteilt werden? Letzte Woche haben wir unser Forschungsprojekt dazu abgeschlossen. Unsere wichtigsten Erkenntnisse fasse ich in diesem Thread zusammen 👇 1/11

Treibhausgasemissionen pro Kilogramm eines Lebensmittels Rindfleisch Lamm/Hammel Kaffee 39,72 28,53 Käse Fisch (gezüchtet) Schweinefleisch 23,88 13,63 12,31 Geflügelfleisch 9,87 Eier 4,67 Reis 4,45 Tofu 3,16 Milch 1| 3,15 Kartoffeln | 0,46 Grafik von DW Quelle: www.science.sciencemag.org | Angaben in kg

Mit freundlichen Grüßen an CSU-Landwirtschaftsminister Alois Rainer, der behauptet hat, Fleischkonsum habe nichts mit Klimaschutz zu tun. 🤷🏼‍♂️🙈

📊 Thu, 28th, 4–5.30 pm: @jlinde.bsky.social on "Farming the Future: How Germans Value Ecosystem Services and Indirect Land Use Impacts" (poster screen 2)

Bonus (not my group, but co-author [on different paper] from my department) below:

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While I will only be talking to people & learning new stuff, two people from my group will be presenting their cool work:

💬 Wed, 27th, 5.45 pm: Malin Gütschow on "The Farmer I Want to Be: Farmers' Role Identity in Multifunctional Agricultural Landscapes" in AC SR 1+2

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Anti-immigrant bias in the German criminal justice system: who would have thought?

osf.io/preprints/so...

Column | As Gaza starves, Israel’s far right sees a dream coming true Members of Israel’s government embrace the Trump-inspired vision of a Gaza of gleaming towers, ritzy tourism and pristine neighborhoods, but without Palestinians.

I normally post on climate science, which is my expertise.
But this is too important to look away, so I want to share this from the Washington Post. Please read.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Gaza suffering man-made mass starvation, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Diese Union ist wirklich eine Gefahr für unsere Demokratie. Wenn sie sich nicht in den Griff bekommt – den menschenfeindlichen Populismus, die kulturkämpferische Rage, die systematischen Unwahrheiten, den Opportunismus, die fehlende Rechenschaft –, sehe ich schwarz.

Es sind Politiker:innen wie Julia Klöckner, die die Demokratie von innen zersetzen, indem sie ein Amt der überparteilichen Gewährleistung demokratisch-parlamentarischen Anstands zu einem Ort und Hebel des rechtspopulistischen Kulturkampfes machen. #Amtsmissbrauch

Officially job-seeking (certified by the Federal Employment Agency).

So if anyone happens to know of any exciting jobs for an agricultural or applied micro economists... I'll be available soon. 💚😜

#EconSky #AgEcon #Job

Our research confirms this. Climate change increases the need for air conditioning for people to not die in heat waves. We need clean energy. We need efficient buildings. We need green infrastructure. We need more of this that most folks can imagine. We should start building it all right now.

Steuerverschwendung in der Wissenschaft YouTube video by MAITHINK X

Seit Jahrzehnten wird in der Forschung Steuergeld verschwendet! Wissenschaftsverlage machen riesige Profite, während wir oft keinen freien Zugriff auf die Forschung haben, die wir ja selbst finanzieren. Wie kann das sein!? Und lässt sich irgendwie lösen? Klickt rein, wir steigen gemeinsam durch! ⬇️🤓💸