Peer-reviewed publications

1. Lades, L. K., Zawojska, E., Johnston, R. J., Hanley, N., Delaney, L., and Czajkowski, M. (forthcoming in 2024). 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.

2. 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

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

4. 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.

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

6. 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.

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Shahab, S., & Lades, L. K. (2021). Sludge and Transaction Costs. Behavioural Public Policy. Free First View.

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

12. 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

13. 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.

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

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

16. 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.

17. 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.

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

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

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

21. 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.

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

Selected work in progress

1. Economic preferences, personality traits, and fertilizer application: Evidence from rice farmers in Eastern China (with Chen Qian, Xueqin Zhu, Nico Heerink, and Gerrit Antonides). R&R. 

2. Pro-Environmental Behaviours and Wellbeing in Everyday Life (with Michael Prinzing, Till Weber, Barbara Fredrickson, and Kate Laffan). R&R.

3. Estimating Present Bias and Sophistication over Effort and Money (No. 359). (with Cerrone, C., Chakraborty, and A., Kim, H. J.) Working paper.

4. Self-control failures, as judged by themselves (with Liam Delaney).

5. It Did Not Come Home: Emotional Reactions to Watching the England Football Team Win and Lose at the Euro 2020. 

6. Everyday Temptations Under Dopaminergic Medication: A Pilot Day Reconstruction Study with De Novo Parkinson’s Disease Patients (with Sophia Lades and Christoph Redecker).

7. Behavioural Public Policy and Endogenous Preferences. 

8. Administrative Burdens and the Climate Crisis (with Lucie Martin)

Other publications

1. "Nudges and Other Behavioural Public Policy Instruments to Encourage Environmentally Friendly Behaviour." PublicPolicy.ie. (with Federica Nova). 

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Visiting

• Visiting Researcher at the Stirling Behavioural Science Centre

• 06/07 2016 Social Cognition Center Cologne (Prof. Wilhelm Hofmann)

Presentations

• 06/2023 Invited talk at the Future of Behavioural Public Policy workshop at the LSE.

• 06/2023 IAREP Conference in Nice, France.

• 09/2022 Invited talk at the LSE Workshop on the Limits of the State.

• 09/2022 IBPP Conference.

• 07/2022 Invited talk at the LSE Event on Behavioural Transformations.

• 06/2022 Invited keynote for the Environmental Resources Authority in Malta.

• 11/2020 LSE Well-being Seminar Series. Video.

• 10/2020 UCD Geary Seminar Series. Video.

• 11/2020 UCD Geary Behavioural Science and Policy Workshop on the Economics of self-control. Organiser.

• 09/2020 UCD Geary Behavioural Science and Policy Workshop on Sludge. Organiser.

• 12/2019 Seminar at the Department of Psychology Seminar Series in Maynooth, Ireland. Invited.

• 09/2019 2 Presentations at, and co-organisation of, the IAREP / SABE Conference 2019 on Economics Psychology and Behavioural Economics.

• 06/2019 24th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists in Manchester, UK.

• 06/2019 Environment and Energy Research Exchange in Dublin, Ireland.

• 05/2019 Workshop on behavioural and experimental economics in Birmingham, UK. Invited.

• 05/2019 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Behavioural Public Policy in Nice, France. Invited.

• 11/2018 11th Annual Irish Economics, Psychology, and Policy Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

• 11/2018 Workshop on behavioural science, subjective well-being, and the environment in Dublin, Ireland. Organiser.

• 11/2018 Policy seminar at the UCD Institute of Food and Health on “How can Public Policies change Food Systems to Promote Public Health?”. Invited.

• 11/2018 Workshop on 2.1 | Innovation Fund - Urban Conversations in Cluj, Romania. Invited.

• 09/2018 Workshop on Applied Ethics of Nudging in Stirling. Invited.

• 09/2018 Behavioural Science and Policy Session in Dublin, Ireland.

• 06/2018 Seminar at the Department of Health, Research Services Unit in Dublin, Ireland. Invited.

• 01/2018 Irish Behavioural Science and Policy Network Event on Well-Being and Decision-Making in Everyday Life in Dublin, Ireland. Co-organiser.

• 12/2017 10th Annual Irish Economics, Psychology, and Policy Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

• 12/2017 Behavioural Sciences and Investor Education Conference in Rio, Brasil. Invited.

• 11/2017 Seminar at the UCD Behavioural Science & Policy Group in Dublin, Ireland.

• 09/2017 Stirling/UCD Workshop on Behavioural Science, Self-Control, and Public Policy in Stirling, UK. Co-organiser.

• 09/2017 Behavioural Sciene and Public Policy Launch in Dublin, Ireland.

• 09/2017 IAREP Conference -Leveraging Behavioral Insights in Tel Aviv, Israel.

• 08/2017 Behavioural Science and Public Policy Launch in Dublin, Ireland.

• 06/2017 DREW Forum at the University of Warwick, UK. Invited.

• 03/2017 Workshop on Valuation and Well-Being in Stirling, UK. Co-organiser.

• 11/2016 9th Annual Irish Economics, Psychology, and Policy Conference at the Queen’s University Belfast, UK

• 09/2016 Workshop on Behavioural Science in Law & Policy: Evidence, Ethics, & Expertise in Newcastle, UK. Invited.

• 09/2016 Behavioural Medicine Research Group in Stirling, UK.

• 08/2016 Glasgow Brown Bag Seminar in Microeconomics in Glasgow, UK.

• 06/2016 Foundations of Utility and Risk 2016 - FUR Conference at the University of Warwick, UK.

• 06/2016 First Workshop on Behavioural Data Linking at the LSE, UK. Invited.

• 06/2016 ESRC Workshop on Behavioural Science and Policy in Stirling, UK. Co-organiser.

• 06/2016 Seminar at the HERU Stated Preference Group at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Invited.

• 05/2016 Research Seminar at the Department of Economics at the University of Kassel, Germany. Invited.

• 05/2016 GLOBE Seminar zur Experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung und Verhaltensökonomik in Göttingen, Germany. Invited.

• 04/2016 Research Seminar at the Motivation, Self-Control, and Economic Behavior Seminar in Cologne, Germany. Invited.

• 04/2016 Workshop on Behavioural Science, Measurement and Policy in Stirling, UK. Co-organiser.

• 04/2016 Big Brother is Nudging You, Science Festival (Moderation of Panel Discussion) in Edinburgh, UK.

• 04/2016 Network of Integrated Behavioural Science (NIBS) Conference 2016, Norwich, UK.

• 03/2016 Royal Economic Society Conference 2016 at the University of Sussex at Brighton, UK.

• 01/2016 MDX Behavioral Economics Seminar in London, UK. Invited.

• 12/2015 Workshop on the Behavioural Science of Self-Control in Stirling, UK. Organiser.

• 11/2015 8th Annual Irish Economics and Psychology Conference in Dublin, Ireland.

• 09/2015 Evo Workshop in Marburg, Germany.

• 09/2015 IAREP/SABE 2015 Conference in Sibiu, Romania.

• 06/2015 ESRC Workshop on Behavioural Science and Public Policy in Stirling, UK.

• 07/2014 IAREP/ICAP 2014 Conference in Paris, France.

• 07/2014 16th Conference on the Foundations of Utility and Risk (FUR 2014) in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

• 09/2013 Witt EVO Seminar in Jena, Germany.

• 09/2013 Ringberg Symposium on the Significance of Evolution for Understanding the Economy in Tegernsee, Germany. Invited.

• 09/2013 Research Seminar at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. Invited.

• 07/2013 SABE/IAREP/ICABEEP 2013 Conference in Atlanta, GA, USA.

• 07/2013 Graz Schumpeter Summer School on Innovations, Institutions and Economic Dynamics in Graz, Austria.

• 06/2013 HEIRs conference 2013 on Public Happiness in Rome, Italy.

• 06/2013 10th STOREP Annual Conference on How Much is Too Much: Different Approaches to Consumption & Leisure in Gaeta, Italy.

• 02/2013 Fourth Behavioural Science Center Workshop in Stirling, United Kingdom. Invited.

• 01/2013 Volkswirtschaftliches Kolloquium at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg, Germany. Invited.

• 09/2012 IAREP Conference 2012 in Wroclaw, Poland.

• 07/2012 International Schumpeter Society Conference in Brisbane, Australia.

• 06/2012 Conference on How to bring Joy into Economics: Revisiting Tibor Scitovsky (1910-2002) in Gaeta, Italy.

• 03/2012 Conference on the limitations of consumer sovereignty at the evangelical academy in Tutzing, Germany.

• 10/2011 Buchenbach Workshop 2011 for young researchers in the fields of evolutionary and behavioral economics in Buchenbach, Germany.

• 07/2011 IAREP/SABE/ICABEEP Conference 2011 in Exeter, United Kingdom.