Prof. Dr. Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg publishes new article in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Prof. Dr. Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg has recently published a new article co-authored by Prof. Dr. Martin Binder (Universität der Bundeswehr München) and Prof. Dr. Israel Waichman (Bard College Berlin) in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

The article is titled "Mismatch between measures of 'greenness': Evidence from a field experiment on self-reports and observed behavior." The research consisted of a field experiment conducted in a medium-sized German town and examined three common measures of “greenness” used by researchers: self-reports, donations to environmental charities, and product choice experiments. However, the researchers found that these measures exhibit weak correlation, and conclude, "Our results support the concern that pro-environmental behaviors are difficult to measure consistently with the instruments that are to-date most commonly applied by researchers, but that there is some room to modify experimental designs to produce measures that yield more correlated outcomes across instruments."

Read the full article here.

Post Date: 12-12-2025