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

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

Incentivizing Engagement: Experimental Evidence on Journalist Performance Pay
with I. Balbuzanov, M. Stalinski and E. Tjernström.
Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy [SSRN]

Artificial Intelligence and Agricultural Employment
with F. Britto, G. Onel, and C. Mullally.
Revise and Resubmit at American Journal of Agricultural Economics [SSRN]

Workfare and Forest Cover: The Case of NREGS in India
with S. Chakravarty, C. Mullally and M. Saha., 2026. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Personalized Reminders: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Voluntary Retirement Savings in Colombia
with L. Prada, E. Tripodi and S. Borda., 2025. [CESifo WP] Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance

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

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
[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

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