I'm Elena, welcome to my personal webpage!
From November 2022 I am a PhD Student in Economics at the Programme of Tuscan Universities
I got my MSc in Economics at the University of Siena on July 2022.
My research interests concern applied Behavioral, Experimental economics and Microeconometrics.
ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9478-7790
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My Research Areas:
Behavioral and experimental economics
Applied microeconomics
Environmental economics
Research Interests:
Decision making under asymmetric information
Behavioral analysis and cognitive biases
Sustainable household and business practices
Climate change and renewable energy
Applied game theory
Methods:
RCTs (lab, online, in the field)
Causal Inference
Text analysis with NLP/LLM
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Enhancing Institutional Trust: Evidence from an Experimental Study with Adolescents in Italy (2025) Social Indicators Research, 1-40,with A. Muscillo, G. Lombardi, F. Garbin, P. Pin
Youth and science: A randomized survey experiment on adolescents’ trust in scientific institutions (2023), Statistica Applicata - Italian Journal of Applied Statistics 35 (3), 381-386, [Conference Journal] with A. Muscilllo, G. Lombardi, F. Garbin, P. Pin
Adolescents’ opinions on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: hints toward enhancing pandemic preparedness in the future (2023) Vaccines, with A. Muscilllo, G. Lombardi, F. Garbin, V. Tambone, L.L. Campanozzi, P. Pin
Meat, Water and Clothing: Insights into Italian Youth's Willingness to Adopt Sustainable Behaviors, with A. Muscillo, G. Lombardi, E. Castellaccio, F. Garbin, P. Pin [Submitted]
Voluntary Disclosure with Bounded Rational Agents: Experimental Evidence, with S. Houde
From Rhetoric to Reality: Developing a Greenwashing index for the Energy Sector, with S. Verde
AI-Driven investigation of vagueness and financial success in Sustainability Reporting by energy corporations
Testing Point Rationalizability, with P. Pin, R. Rozzi and A. Stringhi