BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5d3f8fd376f6f82090dc2125fa80aa8d CATEGORIES:Lecture / Reading / Talk CREATED:20231206T112214 SUMMARY:Gendered Perspectives on Conservation Decision-Making: An Laboratory Experiment in an Agricultural Land Leasing Context | A Talk by Prof. Simanti Banerjee DESCRIPTION:Department of Economics and Center for Economic and Public Policy (CEPP) in vites you to attend a research talk in the Economics Seminar Series, 2023\n Title of the Paper: Gendered Perspectives on Conservation Decision-Making: An Laboratory Experiment in an Agricultural Land Leasing Context\n Abstrac t: In this study, we evaluate using controlled laboratory experiments, the efficacy of different contractual arrangements (fixed rent, fixed rent with penalty and discount contracts) offered by agricultural landowners to thei r tenant producers, in incentivizing environmental conservation on rented a gricultural landscapes. A key contribution of this study is the focus on th e gender of the landowner and the tenant and how that influences the likeli hood of implementing pro- conservation land use practices on rented land. W e are interested in this issue as an increasing amount of farmland in the U .S. is owned by women landowners but is rented from them by male tenants wh o given gendered social norms within the rural community may be unwilling t o follow their landowners’ prescriptions about pro-conservation land use im plementation on the operation. In this context, we examine whether the anti cipation of tenant backlash induces women landowners, more than men, to sel ect contracts with lower rental rates, and accept land use practice impleme ntation on their property associated with poorer conservation outcomes. For this, we investigate the role of communication between the landowner and t he tenant on rental contracts offered and conservation action choice and th e extent to which gender identity influences behavior. Our results indicate that gender identity made salient through priming, impacts landowner's con tract choices significantly. Specifically, male landowners act moregenerous ly towards their male tenants by offering discount contracts rather than an y other contracts. However, whether a female landowner incentivizes conserv ation through a discount or penalty contract depends on whether priming her gender identity generates a strong sense of self for the female participan t or not. Male tenants facing male landowners are more likely to choose con servation actions than when facing their female landowners. Communication i s also found to impact landowners and tenants differently with a significan t impact on tenant behavior only. Our results provide evidence of how gende r identity influences decisions of landowners and tenants – two types of in dividuals whose actions are instrumental to produce environmental conservat ion benefits from intensively managed agricultural landscapes.\n About the Speaker: Dr. Simanti Banerjee has joined the Department of Agricultural Eco nomics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August 2014. Previously she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Oberlin College in Ohio (2013-14) and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Stirling in Scotland UK (2010-13). She received a Ph.D. from the Pennsyl vania State University (2010). Her research deals with analyzing coordinati on within groups, inter-personal bargaining, and the impact of information, communication and social networks on human decision making in a variety of contexts. Using experimental and behavioral economic methods, and surveys she studies performance of various farmland conservation policies, drivers of technology adoption, and decision making under risk & uncertainty. H er lab and field research program has been funded by grants from the USDA-N IFA, USDA-ERS and USDA-CBEAR in addition to the Maude Hammond Fling Faculty Research Fellowship awarded by the UNL Research Council.\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Department of Economics and Center for Economic and Public Policy (CEPP) invites you to attend a research talk in the Economics Seminar Series, 202 3

Title of the Paper: Gendered Perspectives on Conservation D ecision-Making: An Laboratory Experiment in an Agricultural Land Leasing Co ntext

Abstract: In this study, we evaluate using controlled laboratory experiments, the efficacy of different contract ual arrangements (fixed rent, fixed rent with penalty and discount contract s) offered by agricultural landowners to their tenant producers, in incenti vizing environmental conservation on rented agricultural landscapes. A key contribution of this study is the focus on the gender of the landowner and the tenant and how that influences the likelihood of implementing pro- cons ervation land use practices on rented land. We are interested in this issue as an increasing amount of farmland in the U.S. is owned by women landowne rs but is rented from them by male tenants who given gendered social norms within the rural community may be unwilling to follow their landowners’ pre scriptions about pro-conservation land use implementation on the operation. In this context, we examine whether the anticipation of tenant backlash in duces women landowners, more than men, to select contracts with lower renta l rates, and accept land use practice implementation on their property asso ciated with poorer conservation outcomes. For this, we investigate the role of communication between the landowner and the tenant on rental contracts offered and conservation action choice and the extent to which gender ident ity influences behavior. Our results indicate that gender identity made sal ient through priming, impacts landowner's contract choices significantly. S pecifically, male landowners act moregenerously towards their male tenants by offering discount contracts rather than any other contracts. However, wh ether a female landowner incentivizes conservation through a discount or pe nalty contract depends on whether priming her gender identity generates a s trong sense of self for the female participant or not. Male tenants facing male landowners are more likely to choose conservation actions than when fa cing their female landowners. Communication is also found to impact landown ers and tenants differently with a significant impact on tenant behavior on ly. Our results provide evidence of how gender identity influences decision s of landowners and tenants – two types of individuals whose actions are in strumental to produce environmental conservation benefits from intensively managed agricultural landscapes.

About the Speaker: Dr. Simanti Banerjee has joined the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August 2014. Previously she was a Vi siting Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Oberlin College i n Ohio (2013-14) and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Stirli ng in Scotland UK (2010-13). She received a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania Sta te University (2010). Her research deals with analyzing coordination within groups, inter-personal bargaining, and the impact of information, communic ation and social networks on human decision making in a variety of contexts . Using experimental and behavioral economic methods, and surveys she studi es performance of various farmland conservation policies, drivers of techno logy adoption, and decision making under risk & uncertainty. Her lab an d field research program has been funded by grants from the USDA-NIFA, USDA -ERS and USDA-CBEAR in addition to the Maude Hammond Fling Faculty Research Fellowship awarded by the UNL Research Council.

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