Paul J Ferraro

Global rank #4155 95%

Institution: Johns Hopkins University

Primary Field: Environment (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://www.pauljferraro.com

First Publication: 2002

Most Recent: 2025

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	S (4x)	A (2x)	B (1x)	Total
Last 5 Years	0.00	2.68	1.74	7.36
Last 10 Years	0.00	3.69	3.42	11.55
All Time	0.67	5.87	9.12	24.62

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 21

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 17.91

Publications (21)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2025	Underpowered studies and exaggerated effects: A replication and re‐evaluation of the magnitude of anchoring effects	Economic Inquiry	C	4
2024	Behavioral Biases among Producers: Experimental Evidence of Anchoring in Procurement Auctions	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	4
2024	Input Efficiency as a Solution to Externalities and Resource Scarcity: A Randomized Controlled Trial	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists	A	3
2024	Social comparisons and groundwater use: Evidence from Colorado and Kansas	American Journal of Agricultural Economics	A	4
2023	Informational nudges in conservation auctions: A field experiment with U.S. farmers	Food Policy	B	5
2023	Applying behavioral science to agriculture, food, and agri-environmental policymaking	Food Policy	B	3
2022	Time and risk preferences of individuals, married couples and unrelated pairs	Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics	B	3
2022	A reassessment of the potential for loss-framed incentive contracts to increase productivity: a meta-analysis and a real-effort experiment	Experimental Economics	A	2
2020	The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs	World Development	B	2
2019	The behavioural effect of electronic home energy reports: Evidence from a randomised field trial in the United States	Energy Policy	B	3
2017	A cautionary tale on using panel data estimators to measure program impacts	Economics Letters	C	2
2017	Panel Data Designs and Estimators as Substitutes for Randomized Controlled Trials in the Evaluation of Public Programs	Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists	A	2
2014	The performance of non-experimental designs in the evaluation of environmental programs: A design-replication study using a large-scale randomized experiment as a benchmark	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	2
2013	Using Nonpecuniary Strategies to Influence Behavior: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment	Review of Economics and Statistics	A	2
2012	Evaluation of biodiversity policy instruments: what works and what doesn’t?	Oxford Review of Economic Policy	C	3
2011	The today and tomorrow of kids: Time preferences and educational outcomes of children	Journal of Public Economics	A	4
2011	The Persistence of Treatment Effects with Norm-Based Policy Instruments: Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Policy Experiment	American Economic Review	S	3
2008	Asymmetric information and contract design for payments for environmental services	Ecological Economics	B	1
2007	The effectiveness of the US endangered species act: An econometric analysis using matching methods	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	A	3
2003	Detecting other-regarding behavior with virtual players	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization	B	3
2002	The local costs of establishing protected areas in low-income nations: Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar	Ecological Economics	B	1