Jared Gars

I am an assistant professor at FRED, University of Florida. I am also an Assistant Director at the Joint Initiative of Latin American Experimental Economics, and an affiliated researcher at LEAP - Bocconi. I completed my PhD in Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Email: jgars[at]ufl.edu

Confidence and Information Usage: Evidence from Soil Testing in India
with R. Fishman, A. Kishore, Y. Rothler, and P. Ward, 2025. American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Do farmers prefer result-based, hybrid or practice-based agri-environmental schemes?
with S. Guerrero, L. Kuhfuss, and J. Lankoski, 2024. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 51

Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal
with J. Deutschmann, J.-F. Houde, M. Lipscomb and L. Schechter, 2023. Journal of Development Economics, 160
[Voxdev blog post]

Can differences in individual learning explain patterns of technology adoption? Evidence on heterogeneous learning patterns and hybrid rice adoption in Bihar, India
with P. Ward, 2019. World Development, 115:178-189

Politics of Food: An Experiment on Trust in Expert Regulation and Economic Costs of Political Polarization
with C. Burnitt and M. Stalinski. [SSRN] R&R Economic Journal

Personalized Reminders: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Voluntary Retirement Savings in Colombia
with L. Prada, E. Tripodi and S. Borda. [CESifo] R&R JBEF

Incentivizing Engagement: Experimental Evidence on Journalist Performance Pay
with I. Balbuzanov, M. Stalinski and E. Tjernström. [SSRN]

Debt Amnesties in Argentina
with J. Holz and A. Danon [Randomization visual]

Gambling for Retirement: Prize-Linked Savings as a Policy Tool
with J. Holz, M. Rodemeier and J.M. Villa

Market Access and Rural Development: Experimental Evidence from Malawi
with S. Gulesci, D. Ubfal and D. Us-Salam

Finer economic margins for farmed salmon
with Anderson, T.M., Asche, F., Cojocaru, A.L., Misund, B. and Oglend, A., 2025. Aquaculture

Sensing, Thinking, Doing: AI’s growing role on the farm—and what it means for farm work
with Onel G., Brito F., Gars J., and Mullally, C., 2025. Choices

Housing policies for sustainable and inclusive cities: How national governments can deliver affordable housing and compact urban development
with A. Moreno-Monroy, T. Matsumoto, A. Schumann, R. Ahrend, and J. Crook., 2020. Coalition for Urban Transitions and OECD

The growth of metropolitan areas in: Cities in the World: A New Perspective on Urbanisation. (2020)
OECD Urban Studies, OECD Publishing, Paris