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My name is Elisabeth Gsottbauer and I am an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and a Research Associate at the Department of Economics, University of Innsbruck.

My main research interests lie in Environmental Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics. I mainly use laboratory and field experiments to study the optimal design of environmental policy instruments.

🎉New Publications:

Social class and (un)ethical behavior: Causal versus correlational evidence (The Economic Journal)

Do Carbon Footprint Labels promote Climatarian Diets? Evidence from a large-scale Field Experiment (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management)

Anti-social behaviour and economic decision-making: Panel experimental evidence in the wake of COVID-19 (forthcoming Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organization)

🚨 New Working Papers🚨:

Why do People Demand Rent Control? (online at SSRN)

High levels of air pollution reduce team innovation (online at Research Square)

📢 I am currently a Visiting Fellow to Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge and the Department of Land Economy, C-EENRG (Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance & the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI).