Below you will find a list of all my peer-reviewed publications. At the bottom of this page, you will find these publications organised by my (diverse and somewhat overlapping) research themes, which are: Sludge; Nudge FORGOOD; Self-control and/or Present Bias; Applied Behavioural Welfare Economics; Economic Preferences (Risk, Time, and Social); Day Reconstruction Method; and Pro-Environmental Behaviour.

Full list of peer-reviewed publications

1. Xu, Y., Czajkowski, M., Hanley, N., Lades, L., Noussair, C. N., and Tucker, S. (forthcoming in 2025). The Effects of Emotions on Stated Preferences for Environmental Change: a re-examination. Ecological Economics.

2. Lades, L. K., Zawojska, E., Johnston, R. J., Hanley, N., Delaney, L., and Czajkowski, M. (forthcoming in 2025). Anomalies or Expected Behaviors? Understanding Stated Preferences and Welfare Implications in Light of Contemporary Behavioral Economics. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (accepted for publication). Download.

3. Lades, L. K., & Delaney, L. (2024). Self-control failures, as judged by themselves. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 11(1), 1-14. Link.

4. Lowe, W.U.A., Lades, L. K. & Carroll, P. (2024) Personalizing travel behaviour change interventions using the trans-theoretical model and multimodality data. European Transport Research Review 16, 45. Link

5. Prinzing, M., Lades, L. K., Weber, T., & Laffan, K. (2024). Pro-environmental behavior and well-being in daily life. Journal of Environmental Psychology. Link. Preprint.

6. Shahab, S., & Lades, L. K. (2024). Sludge and Transaction Costs. Behavioural Public Policy. 8(2), 327-348. Link.

7. Qian, C., Antonides, G., Zhu, X., Heerink, N., & Lades, L. K. (2024). Do economic preferences and personality traits influence fertilizer use? Evidence from rice farmers in eastern China. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 96, 102328. Link.

8. Banerjee, S., Zimmermann, L., Hortal, A., Dold, M., Ivchenko, A., Lades, L., ... & Savani, M. M. (2024). Recent developments in Behavioural Public Policy: IBPPC 2022. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-6. Link. 

9. Lades, L. K. & Nova, F. (2023). Ethical Considerations when Using Nudges to Reduce Meat Consumption: An Analysis through the FORGOOD Ethics Framework. Journal of Consumer Policy, 1-19. Download

10. Samahita, M., & Lades, L. K. (2023). Compliance Spending Aversion: An Unintended Consequence of Charity Regulation. Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 6.

11. Laffan, K., Lades, L. K., & Delaney, L. (2023). Paths that lead astray: Examining the situational predictors of intention-behaviour gaps in meat consumption. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102045.

12. Lades, L. K., Martin, L., & Delaney, L. (2022). Informing behavioural policies with data from everyday life. Behavioural Public Policy, 6(2), 172-190.

13. Lades, L. K., Barbett, L., Daly, M., & Dombrowski, S. U. (2022). Self-control, goal interference, and the binge-watching experience: An event reconstruction study. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 7, 100220.

14. Lades, L. K., & Delaney, L. (2022). Nudge FORGOOD. Behavioural Public Policy, 6(1), 75-94.

15. Comerford, D. A., & Lades, L. K. (2022). Responsibility utility and the difference between preference and desirance: implications for welfare evaluation. Social Choice and Welfare, 58(2), 201-224. Open View Access. Paper.

16. Lades, L. K., Clinch, J. P., & Kelly, A. (2021). Maybe tomorrow: How burdens and biases impede energy-efficiency investments. Energy Research & Social Science. 78, 102154. Open Access.

17. Lades, L. K., Laffan, K., & Weber, T. (2021). Do economic preferences predict pro-environmental behaviours?. Ecological Economics, 183, 106977. Open Access.

18. Lades, L. K., Laffan, K., Daly, M., & Delaney, L. (2020). Daily Emotional Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic. British Journal of Health Psychology. Open Access.

    • Mentioned in the media: The Conversation, Business Insider, The Mandarin

19. Lades, L. K., Kelleher, L., & Kelly, A. (2020). Why is active travel more satisfying than motorized travel? Evidence from Dublin. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 136, 318-333. Open Access.

20. Lades, L. K. & Hofmann, W. (2019). Temptation, Self-Control, and Inter-temporal Choice. Journal of Bioeconomics, 47-70. Link. Working Paper Version.

21. Lades, L. K., Mark Egan, Liam Delaney, Michael Daly (2017). Childhood self-control and adult pension participation. Economics Letters, 161, 102-104. Link.

22. Delaney, L., & Lades, L. K. (2017). Present Bias and Everyday Self‐Control Failures: A Day Reconstruction Study. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30(5), 1157-1167. Link.

23. Burnham, Terence C., Stephen E. G. Lea, Adrian Bell, Herbert Gintis, Paul W. Glimcher, Robert Kurzban, Leonhard Lades, Kevin McCabe, Karthik Panchanathan, Miriam Teschl, and Ulrich Witt. 2016. “Evolutionary Behavioral Economics.” in Complexity and evolution: toward a new synthesis for economics, eds. D. S. Wilson and A. Kirman. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Link.

24. Binder, M. & Lades, L. K. (2015). Autonomy-Enhancing Paternalism. Kyklos, 68, pp. 3-27. Link.

25. Lades, L. K. (2014). Impulsive consumption and reflexive thought: Nudging ethical consumer behavior. Journal of Economic Psychology, 41, 114-128. Link.

26. Schubert, C. & Lades, L. K. (2014). Fighting maritime piracy: Three lessons from Pompeius Magnus. Defence & Peace Economics, 25, 481-497. Link.

27. Lades, L. K. (2013). Explaining shapes of Engel curves: the impact of differential satiation dynamics on consumer behavior. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 23, 1023-1045. Link.

28. Lades, L. K. (2012). Towards an incentive salience model of intertemporal choice. Journal of Economic Psychology, 33, 833-841. Link.

Work in progress

• Vulnerability to and Acceptability of Different Types of Sludge (with Margaret Samahita, Lucie Martin, Cass Sunstein, and Martin Baekgaard).

• Administrative Burdens as Barriers to Afforestation: A Sludge Audit of Ireland’s Afforestation Scheme available on the OSF: https://osf.io/mf37p/ (with Patty Lentz and Cara Augustenborg)

• Does Sludge Slow Down the Solar Schools Scheme? An Assessment of Administrative Burdens Preventing Climate Action in Ireland (with Patricia Lentz, Lucie Martin, and Cara Augustenborg).

• Estimating Present Bias and Sophistication over Effort and Money (with Claudia Cerrone, Anujit Chakraborty, and Hyok Jung Kim) 

• The Effects of Emotions on Stated Preferences for Environmental Change: a re-examination (with Yilong Xu, Mikolaj Czajkowski, Nick Hanley, Charles N. Noussair, and Steven Tucker). 

• Predictors of support for environmental policies in Ireland: the role of worry (with Jayne Brown and Till Stowasser)

Other publications

• • EPA Ireland funded report: "Gap Analysis on Behavioural Research Related to Climate Policy and Interventions" (with Cara Augustenborg): https://www.epa.ie/publications/monitoring--assessment/climate-change/gap-analysis-on-behavioural-research-related-to-climate-policy-and-interventions-1.php 

  • A policy brief on "Improving engagement with Ireland’s solar schools scheme by reducing administrative frictions" on Publicpolicy.ie: https://publicpolicy.ie/environment/improving-engagement-with-irelands-solar-schools-scheme-by-reducing-administrative-frictions/ 

  • A policy brief on "Reducing administrative frictions in Ireland’s afforestation scheme" on Publicpolicy.ie: https://publicpolicy.ie/environment/reducing-administrative-frictions-in-irelands-afforestation-scheme/ 

  • A guide to conduct semi-structured interviews for sludge audits available on the OSF: https://osf.io/ed7sn/ 

  • A guide on how to identify sludge available on the OSF: https://osf.io/32wta/ "Nudges and Other Behavioural Public Policy Instruments to Encourage Environmentally Friendly Behaviour." PublicPolicy.ie. (with Federica Nova). 

• ""Sludge" in Irish Policymaking." PublicPolicy.ie. (with Johnson, J., and O’Connor, R.). 

• Lades, L., Laffan, K., Daly, M., & Delaney, L. (2020) Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy Brief on PublicPolicy.ie.

• Fitzpatrick, P., O’Connor, J., Doyle, G., Delaney, L., Lades, L., Lawlor, O., ... & Murrin, C. (2019). One year update following removal of high sugar sweetened beverages from a university campus: Patricia Fitzpatrick. European Journal of Public Health, 29 (Supplement_4), ckz185-645.

• Book review: George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller: Phishing for phools: the economics of manipulation and deception. Journal of Bioeconomics, (2016)

• "Impulsive behaviour", in: Altman, M. (ed.), Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics, Praeger, ABC-CLIO.

• "Present-biased preferences", in: Altman, M. (ed.), Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics, Praeger, ABC-CLIO.

• Book reviews: (of two books by Gad Saad on evolutionary consumer theory). Journal of Bioeconomics, (2014), 16, 329-334.

• Blog post Phishing for Phools and the creation of novel desires. www.economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com.

• Blog post Readings on "wanting" and "liking". www.economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com.

• Blog post The changing meaning of the trait self-control scale. www.economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com.

• Blog post Book review on Why Nudge? by Cass Sunstein. www.economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.com.