Esther Blanco

Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies Economic and Environmental Valuation Culture, Economy, and Development Studies Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Publications

Citations

783

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Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2001

Research summary

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Esther Blanco studies how people cooperate to provide shared resources and public goods, using controlled economic experiments and field studies. Much of her work examines environmental problems such as conservation, carbon pricing, and payments for ecosystem services (programs that pay people to protect nature), as well as how leadership and institutions shape collective decision-making. She often combines behavioral economics with real-world policy questions in settings ranging from Colombia and Namibia to Norway.

Behavioral and experimental economicsPublic goods and collective actionEnvironmental valuation and conservation policyPayments for ecosystem servicesInstitutions, leadership, and fairness

Publication activity has been steady but modest over the past decade, averaging about two per year with occasional busier years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently

Recent publications

Collective Evidence on Behavioral Interventions Targeting Carbon Pricing Support: A Many-Designs Approach with 55 Studies
Research Square · 2026
Institution formation in weakest-link games
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2025
The Appearance of Democracy: How Conditional Payments Reshape Behavior Among Local Leaders
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025
Increasing benefits in one-time public goods does not promote cooperation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2024
No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 2023
Competition among public good providers for donor rewards
Experimental Economics · 2022
The Role of Non-Binding Pledges in Social Dilemmas with Mitigation and Adaptation
Environmental and Resource Economics · 2022
No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2021
Journal of economic behavior & organization / Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments
Digital Library of the University of Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck) · 2021
Incentivizing public good provision through outsider transfers: experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality requirements
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2020
Diagnosing the role of the state for local collective action: Types of action situations and policy instruments
LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2020

Publishes in

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization×4
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×4
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics×3
Science Advances×2
Experimental Economics×2

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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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