Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

Dr. Reinhard Uehleke

Research interests/ Forschungsschwerpunkte

  • Behavioral Economics and consumer research
  • Agricultural policy evaluation
  • Farm efficiency and environmental conservation


Research Projects/ Forschungsprojekte


Academic Career/ Akademischer Werdegang


04/2022 - 10/2023 Research Assistant in the field of Agricultural and Food Economics Management at the Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen
2017 - 2022: Research Assistant at the Chair of Production Economics at the Institute for Food and Resource Economics (ILR), University of Bonn
2015 - 2017: Research Assistant at the Chair of Agricultural Economics, University of Rostock
2011 - 2015: Research Assistant in the research project "FairPayClim," HTWK Leipzig ("Justice and willingness to pay for the global public good of climate protection - an empirical and theoretical analysis (FairPayClim")
2011: Research Assistant in the research project "Altersvorsorge macht Schule" (Pension Planning Goes to School), University of Bamberg
2009 - 2011: Student Assistant at the Chair of Empirical Microeconomics, University of Bamberg
2004 - 2005: Language Teacher and Project Manager for Rural Development, Sorya e.V., Cambodia

Publications and Conferences/ Publikationen und Vorträge

  2022

Massfeller, M., Meraner, M., Hüttel, S., Uehleke, R. (2022) Data on farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes. Data in Brief, 45, 108642. Link
Massfeller, M., Meraner, M., Hüttel, S., Uehleke, R. (2022) Farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes: A German perspective. Land Use Policy, 120, 106281. Link
Eitelberg, L., Klink-Lehman, J., Hüttel, S., Uehleke, R. (2022) The effect of husbandry system information on consumer willingness to pay for dairy products from cow-calf-contact systems, accepted for presentation at the ÖGA Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 22.-23. September 2022.
Adamie, B., Uehleke, R., Hansson, H., Mußhof, O., & Hüttel, S. (2022) Dairy cow welfare measures: Can production economic data help? Sustainable Production and Consumption, 32, 296-305. Link
Uehleke, R., Petrick, M., & Hüttel, S. (2022) Evaluations of agri-environmental schemes based on observational farm data: The importance of covariate selection. Land Use Policy, 114, 105950. Link

  2021

Massfeller, A., Meraner, M., Hüttel, S., Uehleke, R. (2021) Farmers’ acceptance of results-based agri-environmental schemes - insights from a case study in North Rhine-Westphalia. 61st Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany, September 22-24, 2021 Link
Leonhardt, H., Braito, M., & Uehleke, R. (2021) Combining the best of two methodological worlds? Integrating Q methodology-based farmer archetypes in a quantitative model of agri-environmental scheme uptake. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-16 Link
Uehleke, R., Seifert, S., Hüttel, S. (2021) Do Animal Welfare Schemes Promote Better Animal Health? An Empirical Investigation of German Pork Production. Livestock Science 247 Link

  2020

Uehleke, R., Leonhardt, H., Hüttel, S. Counterfactual evaluation of agri-environmental schemes in Austria, 25th EAERE Annual Conference, Berlin 23.06.-03.07.2020 Link
Uehleke, R., Seifert, S., Hüttel, S. Animal welfare and production efficiency in German pork production, 60. Gewisola Jahrestagung, Halle 23.-25.09.2020 Link
Hüttel, S., Seifert, S., Uehleke, R., Odening, M., Filler, G., von Witzke, K., Graubner, M., Balmann, A. (2020) Preisbildung bei Auktionen auf dem Bodenmarkt: Analyse der Unterschiede zwischen Landwirten und Nichtlandwirten, Download Link
Uehleke, R., Seifert, S., Hüttel, S. (2020) Animal welfare and production efficiency in German pork production, selected paper presented at the Papers in 94th Annual Conference from Agricultural Economics Society, April 15-17, 2020, KU Leuven, Belgium (Cancelled) Link
Uehleke, R., Seifert, S., Hüttel, S. Animal welfare and production efficiency in German pork production, Agecon Discussion Paper Link