Francisco Alpízar

Francisco Alpízar

I am an applied behavioural economist working in the interface between environmental and development issues. I am the Chair and Professor of the Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Group in Wageningen University and Research. On this website I share my most recent work, publications, and curriculum.

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Featured Publications

On the perils of environmentally friendly alternatives

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2024). Alpizar, F. F. Carlsson and G. Lanza…

Input Efficiency as a Solution to Externalities and Resource Scarcity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Journal of the Association on Environmental and Resource Economist. (forthcoming 2024). Alpizar, F..…

Celebrity Endorsement in Promoting Pro Environmental Behavior

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2022). Thong, H., Z. Nie, F. Alpizar,…

Community-based monitoring to facilitate water management by local institutions in Costa Rica

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (2021) Bernedo del Carpio, M.;…

A framework for selecting and designing policies to reduce marine plastic pollution in developing countries

Environmental Science and Policy (2020) F. Alpizar, F. Carlsson, G. Lanza, B. Carney,…

Determinants of food insecurity among smallholder farmer households in Central America: recurrent versus extreme weather-driven events

Regional Environmental Change (2020) Francisco Alpízar, Milagro Saborío-Rodríguez, M. Ruth Martínez-Rodríguez, Bárbara Viguera, Raffaele Vignola, Tabaré Capitán & Celia A.…

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