Research

Work in Progress 


Valuing the avoidance of IQ losses in children: A large scale multi-country stated preference approach white paper available here

(with Giles Atkinson, Davide Contu, Damien Dussaux, Stavros Georgiou and Susana Mourato)


Valuing skin reactions caused by exposure to pollutants: evidence from a large scale experiment

(with Giles Atkinson, Davide Contu, Damien Dussaux, Stavros Georgiou and Susana Mourato)


The colors of climate change: how newspapers changed their choice of colors in reporting climate events.
(with Vincenzo Galasso and Alessandro Romano)


Does the public value climate targets? Evidence from a large survey.
(with Vittoria Battocletti, Alessandro Romano and Tobias Tröger)


Do Colors Affect Financial Preferences and Understanding of Investment Options?

(with Kenneth Koo, Alex Lee and Alessandro Romano)


Why do colors work in conveying information? Evidence from eye-tracking experiments.
(with Vincenzo Galasso, Amanda Rose and Alessandro Romano)


Colors are effective in addressing the no-reading problem in contract law

(with Amanda Rose and Alessandro Romano), under review


Publications


People can understand IPCC visuals and are not influenced by colors
(with Vittoria Battocletti and Alessandro Romano)

Environmental Research Letters, 2023


Interactions between concerns for the environment and other sources of concern in 31 European countries

(with Addolorata Marasco and Alessandro Romano) 

Environmental Research Letters, 2023


How do Google searches for symptoms, news and unemployment interact during COVID-19? A Lotka-Volterra analysis of google trends data

Quality & quantity, 2021


COVID-19 vaccine passport and international traveling: The combined effect of two nudges on americans’ support for the pass

(with Miriam Allena, Renny Reyes and Alessandro Romano)

International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021


Depolarizing the COVID Vaccine Passport

(with Sebastián Guidi and Alessandro Romano)

Yale Law Journal Forum, 2021


Odi et Amo: A nudge to reduce the consumption of single-use carrier bags 

(with Alessandro Romano)

Waste Management, 2021 (if you don't have access email me!)


The scale of COVID-19 graphs affects understanding, attitudes, and policy preferences

(with Goran Dominioni, Sebastián Guidi and Alessandro Romano) 

Health economics, 2020


How to make COVID-19 contact tracing apps work: Insights from behavioral economics

(with Ian Ayres and Alessandro Romano) 

MedRxiv, 2020


A quantitative study of the interactions between oil price and renewable energy sources stock prices

(with Goran Dominioni and Alessandro Romano) 

Energies, 2019.


Blog posts/ Press Coverage


How can the public be persuaded to accept vaccine passports?, LSE COVID-19 Blog, 2021


The public do not understand logarithmic graphs used to portray COVID-19’, Impact of Social Sciences Blog, 2020 and here


Let them log scale, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference and Social Science, 2021


Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me: COVID-19 data and the log scale, Covid Blog in Social Sciences, 2021 


Flatten the (Logarithmic) Curve: How Different Graphs on COVID-19 Deaths Alter People’s Attitudes and Policy Preferences, Behavioural Public Policy (BPP) Blog, 2020


Explained: How to draw the right conclusions from Covid-19 graphs, Apolitical, 2020