Farmers' adoption of climate change mitigation measures is key to successfully reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. This article investigates the role of non-cognitive skills, namely self-efficacy and locus of control, in farmers' uptake of mitigation measures. The study is based on a combination of survey and census data from 105 farmers in Switzerland. Almost all farmers in our sample already adopt some of the considered measures to reduce greenhouse gases on their farm. On average, 37% of the mitigation measures available to the specific farm type are adopted. We find that a one standard deviation increase in non-cognitive skills is associated with a 20 to 40% higher share of adopted mitigation measures. This relationship is robust to the inclusion of a comprehensive vector of controls, inspired both from the agricultural economics and the psychology literature. Additionally, we find that omitted variable bias would need to be implausibly large to refute our findings. Finally, we explore potential mechanisms. The suggested pathway through which non-cognitive skills are associated with the adoption of climate change mitigation measures is the innovativeness of the farmers. Fostering farmers' non-cognitive skills could be an effective policy lever to accelerate the diffusion of climate change mitigation measures.

农民采取减缓气候变化的措施是成功减少农业温室气体排放的关键。本文调查了非认知技能，即自我效能和控制点，在农民采取缓解措施中的作用。该研究基于来自瑞士 105 名农民的调查和人口普查数据的结合。我们样本中的几乎所有农民都已经采取了一些经过深思熟虑的措施来减少他们农场的温室气体排放。平均而言，采用了特定农场类型可用的缓解措施的 37%。我们发现，非认知技能每增加一个标准差，所采取的缓解措施的比例就会增加 20% 到 40%。这种关系对于包含全面的控制向量是稳健的，灵感来自农业经济学和心理学文献。此外，我们发现省略的变量偏差需要大得令人难以置信才能反驳我们的发现。最后，我们探索潜在的机制。将非认知技能与采取减缓气候变化措施联系起来的建议途径是农民的创新能力。培养农民的非认知技能可能是加速气候变化减缓措施推广的有效政策杠杆。将非认知技能与采取减缓气候变化措施联系起来的建议途径是农民的创新能力。培养农民的非认知技能可能是加速气候变化减缓措施推广的有效政策杠杆。将非认知技能与采取减缓气候变化措施联系起来的建议途径是农民的创新能力。培养农民的非认知技能可能是加速气候变化减缓措施推广的有效政策杠杆。