Competitive Grant To Establish a USDA Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Policy Research

by Daniel Hellerstein

ERS invites proposals for a competitive grant to establish and fund a USDA Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Policy Research that will use behavioral and experimental economics to conduct research on how policies and programs can influence the provision of ecosystem services from agricultural lands. Errata: On June 6, 2014, page 11, Table 1, "Specific Instructions for Application for Federal Domestic Assistance-Short Organizational (SF-424)," Item 6b-c was changed from "leave blank" to "enter the requested information."

Keywords: Agri-environmental programs, ecosystem services, experimental economics, behavioral economics, economic incentives, conservation, working lands, water quality, soil erosion

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