Policy makers around the world seem to have widely endorsed the use of voluntary
approaches as a means to address concerns about environmental protection and resource …

Group incentives can and have been used to address a range of environmental and
resource problems. These schemes base individual penalties and/or rewards on the …

Agricultural fertilizer use is widely acknowledged to be a leading cause of water pollution.
Yet, no national estimates exist on the effect of fertilizer application on concentrations of …

Tip** points can occur in many complex environmental systems and often produce abrupt
and irreversible change. Thresholds associated with tip** points are difficult to predict in …

This paper investigates the causal effect of tax incentives on firms' pollution behavior based
on unique government administrative data of firm-level toxic emissions. Using the staggered …

Field experiments provide a useful way to address a number of important issues in
environmental and resource economics. This article provides a review of studies that have …

This study evaluates the tradeoff between agricultural production and water quality at both
the watershed scale and the farm scale, using an integrated economic-biophysical hybrid …

Economic experiments have been used to inform evidence‐based policymaking in a variety
of fields but have rarely been used to address agricultural policy topics in the United States …

Environmental and natural resource (ENR) policies that focus on group outcomes are
common but have received relatively less attention from economists than policies based on …

Improving water quality in agricultural landscapes is an ongoing challenge, and most agri‐
environmental programs in the United States rely on voluntary adoption of conservation …