Research

Working papers

Implicit and Explicit Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment, with U. Afzal, M. Fafchamps, S. Quinn and F. Said, NBER Working Paper No. 25802. Accepted, Economic Journal.

Strategic information avoidance, belief manipulation and the effectiveness of green nudges, with Y. Gao, R. Golman and M. Tavoni. CSI: Climate and Sustainable Innovation 269535, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. Accepted, Ecological Economics.

Effective Leadership Across Economic Contexts, with D. Cooper and R., Weber. Accepted, Leadership Quarterly.  

Social Norms and Economic Incentives: An Experimental Study on Household Waste Management, with J. Bonan, C., Cattaneo, A., Galliera and M., Tavoni. Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano Working Paper 2023-490 (2023). R&R, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Daily temperature and sales of energy-using durables, with J. Bonan, C., Cattaneo and M., Tavoni. RFF Working paper 23-43 (2023). R&R, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.

Widening the scope: The direct and spillover effects of nudging water efficiency in the presence of other behavioral interventions, with J. Bonan, C. Cattaneo, A. Galliera and M. Tavoni. Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano Working Paper 2023-491 (2023). R&R, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 

Climate change salience and electricity consumption: evidence from Twitter activity, with J. Bonan, D. Curzi, G. and S. Ferro. RFF working paper 23-34 (2023). Submitted.

Publications

Nudging Payment Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Pay-as-You-Go Off-Grid Electricity, with J. Bonan, M. Mahmud and F. Said, The World Bank Economic Review, 37(4), 620–639. 2023.

Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation, with U. Afzal, M. Fafchamps and F. Said. American Economic Journal: Applied 14(3), 2022.

Home-based: Experimental Evidence on Female Entrepreneurs' Preferences from Pakistan, with A. Chaudhry, M. Mahmud and F. Said. Economic Development and Cultural Change 71(1), 2022.

A randomized trial of energy cost information provision alongside energy-efficiency classes for refrigerator purchases, with Y. Gao and M. Tavoni.  Nature Energy 7, 360-368, 2022.

Evaluating the impact of technological renovation and competition on energy consumption in the workplace, with V. Fanghella and M. Tavoni. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 114, 2022.

“Just Words? Just Speeches?" On The Economic Value of Charismatic Leadership, with J. Antonakis, R. Weber and C. Zehnder. Management Science, 68 (9), 2021.

Heterogeneity of social information programs: the role of identity and values, with J. Bonan, C. Cattaneo and M. Tavoni. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 108, 2021.

The interaction of descriptive and injunctive social norms in promoting energy conservation, with J. Bonan, C. Cattaneo and M. Tavoni, Nature Energy, 5, 900-909, 2020.

Social Norms with Private Values: Theory and Experiments, with M Dufwenberg, F Passarelli and G Tabellini. Games and Economic Behavior, 124, 288-304, 2020.

Urgency and engagement: empirical evidence from a large-scale intervention on energy use awareness, with A. Galliera and M. Tavoni, Journal of Economic Psychology, 81, 2020.

It is not power, but how you use it: Experimental Evidence on altruism from households in Pakistan, with A. Chaudhry, M. Mahmoud and F. Said, Applied Economic Letters, 27(5), 426-431, 2020.

Adopting LEDs changes attitudes towards climate change: experimental evidence from China, with Y. Gao and M. Tavoni, Environmental Research Letters, 14(8), 2019.

On the use of nudges to affect spillovers in environmental behaviors, with V. Fanghella and M. Tavoni. Frontiers in Psychology. 10, 2019.

Can vouchers reduce elite capture of local development projects? Experimental evidence from the Solomon Islands, with A. Beath, A. BenYishay, P. Grosjean and R. Weber. Journal of Public Economics, 160, 117-131,  2018.

Two sides of the same rupee? Comparing demand for microcredit and microsaving in a framed field experiment in rural Pakistan, with U. Afzal, M. Fafchamps, S. Quinn and F. Said. The Economic Journal, 2017.

Do leaders affect ethical conduct? An experimental study, with D. Darai N. Pavanini and R. Weber. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(6), 1177–1213, 2017. 

Relative social status and conformism: Experimental evidence on local public good contributions. Economic Letters, 157, 31-35,  2017.

Push, don't nudge: behavioral spillovers and policy instruments, with Valerio Capraro and Massimo Tavoni. Economic Letters, 154, 92-95, 2017.

Historical Legacy and Policy Effectiveness: the Long-Term Influence of pre-Unification Borders in Italy, with G. De Blasio. Journal of Regional Science, 57 (2), 319-341, 2017.

Norm Elicitation in Within-Subjects Designs: Testing for Order Effects, with M. Drouvelis and D. Nosenzo. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 62, 1-7, 2016.

Social Preferences and Environmental quality: Evidence from School Children in Sierra Leone, with I. Levely. Journal of African Economies,  November, 1-41, 2015.

Italy 2013: Monitoring the Effectiveness of Alternative Electoral Strategies through Sentiment Analysis of Twitter posts, with A. Ceron. New Media and Society, 2015. 

Institutional Quality, Culture and Norms of Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Italy and Kosovo, with A. Cassar and P. Grosjean. Journal of Law and Economics 57, 821 – 863, 2014.

Environmental Degradation and Conservation Among the Rural Poor: A Charitable Contributions Experiment, with D. Karapetyan. Ecological Economics, 99, 1-130, 2014.

Motivation Crowding in Environmental Conservation: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment. Ecological Economics, 70, 2083–2097, 2011.

ARV Treatment and Time Allocation to Household Tasks: Evidence from Kenya, with M. Goldstein, J. Graff Zivin, M. Nangami and H. Thirumurthy. African Development Review, 21, 180-208, 2009.

Work in Progress

Contract enforcement and interpersonal trust, with V. Pezone, G. Pignataro and G. Righetto.

Contract enforcement and workers' referrals, with J. Gagete and G. Righetto.

Nudging within the household, with J. Bonan and C. Cattaneo.

Combining nudges, with J. Bonan, C. Cattaneo and M. Tavoni.

Pollution, incentives and workers' productivity, with S. Ferro, T. Frattini and A. Romarri.

Climate shocks and individual preferences, with S. Constantino, M. Vranic and E. Weber