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65
Citations
16596
World Ranking
605
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Erwin H. Bulte is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, focusing primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences with a strong emphasis on Economics and Econometrics as a key subfield. Their research spans various subfields including Soil Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Safety Research, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics related to agriculture and development, including:

  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

Erwin H. Bulte's notable recent papers include:

  • Empowerment and intimate partner violence: Domestic abuse when household income is uncertain, 2020, Review of Development Economics
  • Women participation in formal decision-making: Empirical evidence from participatory forest management in Ethiopia, 2021, Global Environmental Change
  • Toward an Understanding of the Welfare Effects of Nudges: Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Workplace, 2020, The Economic Journal
  • The economic impacts of house screening against malaria transmission: Experimental evidence from eastern Zambia, 2023, Social Science & Medicine
  • Internal versus top-down monitoring in community resource management: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia, 2021, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Menale Kassie (17 joint publications)
  • Zewdu Abro (12 joint publications)
  • Alan de Brauw (10 joint publications)
  • Goytom Abraha Kahsay (7 joint publications)
  • Lotte van der Haar (6 joint publications)

Erwin H. Bulte has contributed to scholarly publishing across various venues, most notably in:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials (26 publications)
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics (5 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (5 publications)
  • Australian Economic Papers (4 publications)
  • Nature Plants (2 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Erwin H. Bulte has published a book titled African Farmers, Value Chains and Agricultural Development in 2021, through Springer International Publishing.

The scientist's professional recognitions include membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2017 and membership in Academia Europaea since 2012.

Best Publications

  • The Resource Curse Revisited and Revised: A Tale of Paradoxes and Red Herrings

    Christa N. Brunnschweiler;Erwin H. Bulte;Erwin H. Bulte

  • Violent conflict and behavior: A field experiment in Burundi

    M.J. Voors;E.E.M. Nillesen;E.H. Bulte;B.W. Lensink

  • Resource intensity, institutions, and development

    Erwin H. Bulte;Richard Damania;Robert T. Deacon

  • Natural resources and violent conflict: resource abundance, dependence, and the onset of civil wars

    Christa N. Brunnschweiler;Erwin H. Bulte

  • Income inequality and the environment: aggregation bias in environmental Kuznets curves

    Nico Heerink;Abay Mulatu;Erwin Bulte

  • The Economics of Nature: Managing Biological Assets

    G.C. van Kooten;E.H. Bulte

  • Trust and cooperation: Social capital and community resource management

    J.A. Bouma;E.H. Bulte;D.P. van Soest

  • Payments for ecosystem services and poverty reduction: concepts, issues, and empirical perspectives

    Erwin H. Bulte;Leslie Lipper;Randy Stringer;David Zilberman

  • Why compensating wildlife damages may be bad for conservation

    Erwin H. Bulte;Daniel Rondeau

  • A Dark Side of Social Capital? Kinship, Consumption, and Savings

    S. Di Falco;E.H. Bulte

  • How trade saved humanity from biological exclusion: An economic theory of Neanderthal extinction

    Richard D. Horan;Erwin Bulte;Jason F. Shogren

  • The effect of varying the causes of environmental problems on stated WTP values: Evidence from a field study

    E.H. Bulte;S.D. Gerking;J.A. List;A.J. de Zeeuw

  • Linking Natural Resources to Slow Growth and More Conflict

    Christa Brunnschweiler;Erwin Bulte

  • Social Capital and Agricultural Innovation in Sub Saharan Africa

    F.C. van Rijn;E.H. Bulte;A. Adekunle

  • The ecological footprint: useful science or politics?

    G.C. van Kooten;E.H. Bulte

  • Biological Pollution Prevention Strategies under Ignorance:The Case of Invasive Species

    Richard D. Horan;Charles Perrings;Frank Lupi;Erwin H. Bulte

  • Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse

    A.K. Wick;E.H. Bulte

  • Positional spending and status seeking in rural China

    Philip H. Brown;Erwin Bulte;Erwin Bulte;Xiaobo Zhang

  • Do decentralized innovation systems promote agricultural technology adoption? Experimental evidence from Africa.

    Haki Pamuk;Erwin Bulte;Erwin Bulte;Adewale A. Adekunle

  • The impact of kinship networks on the adoption of risk-mitigating strategies in Ethiopia

    Salvatore Di Falco;Erwin Bulte

  • The effect of varying the causes of environmental problems on stated wtp values: Evidence from a field study

    Erwin Bulte;Aart de Zeeuw;Shelby Gerking;John List

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Horan
Richard D. Horan Michigan State University
John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Robert Lensink
Robert Lensink University of Groningen
Jason F. Shogren
Jason F. Shogren University of Wyoming
Joost M.E. Pennings
Joost M.E. Pennings Maastricht University
G. Cornelis van Kooten
G. Cornelis van Kooten University of Victoria
Xiaobo Zhang
Xiaobo Zhang Peking University
Henk Folmer
Henk Folmer University of Groningen
Mariana C. Rufino
Mariana C. Rufino Lancaster University
Ken E. Giller
Ken E. Giller Wageningen University & Research

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