Paul J. Ferraro

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

Publications

July 31, 2017

Nature & Prosperity: The Evidence We Still Need & the Right Questions to Ask→

July 31, 2017/ ScienceSites

Ferraro, PJ. October 9, 2013. SNAP.is/Magazine.

July 31, 2017

Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence From a Large-Scale Field Experiment→

July 31, 2017/ ScienceSites

Ferraro, PJ and M Price. 2013. The Review of Economics and Statistics 95(1): 64-73. Data Code

July 31, 2017

Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Mechanisms in Information-Based Environmental Policies: Evidence From a Large-Scale Field Experiment→

July 31, 2017/ ScienceSites

Ferraro, PJ and JJ Miranda. 2013. Resource and Energy Economics 35: 356-379.

July 31, 2017

More Strictly Protected Areas Are not Necessarily More Protective→

July 31, 2017/ ScienceSites

Ferraro, PJ, M Hanauer, D Miteva, G. Canavire-Bacareza, S Pattanayak, and K Sims. 2013. Environmental Research Letters 8: 02511.

July 31, 2017

The Effects of Protected Area Systems on Ecosystem Restoration: A Quasi-Experimental Design to Estimate the Impact of Costa Rica’s Protected Area System on Forest Regrowth→

July 31, 2017/ ScienceSites

Andam, KS, PJ Ferraro, and M Hanauer. 2013. Conservation Letters 6(5): 317-323.

July 31, 2017

Social Dimensions of Procurement Auctions for Environmental Service Contracts: Evaluating Tradeoffs Between Cost-Effectiveness and Participation by the Poor in Rural Tanzania→

July 31, 2017/ ScienceSites

Jindal, J Kerr, PJ Ferraro, and B Swallow. 2013. Land Use Policy 31: 71-80.

July 31, 2017

Economic Instruments for Nature Conservation→

July 31, 2017/ ScienceSites

Barrett, CB, EH Bulte, PJ Ferraro, and S Wunder. 2013. Key Topics in Conservation Biology 2, D. MacDonald & K. Willis (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Featured Articles

Publications

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)

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.

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.

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Better Way to Agree to Stop Climate Change

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

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Nature & Prosperity: The Evidence We Still Need & the Right Questions to Ask→

Using Non-Pecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence From a Large-Scale Field Experiment→

Heterogeneous Treatment Effects and Mechanisms in Information-Based Environmental Policies: Evidence From a Large-Scale Field Experiment→

More Strictly Protected Areas Are not Necessarily More Protective→

The Effects of Protected Area Systems on Ecosystem Restoration: A Quasi-Experimental Design to Estimate the Impact of Costa Rica’s Protected Area System on Forest Regrowth→

Social Dimensions of Procurement Auctions for Environmental Service Contracts: Evaluating Tradeoffs Between Cost-Effectiveness and Participation by the Poor in Rural Tanzania→

Economic Instruments for Nature Conservation→

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