Biography
Paul is a postdoctoral research associate at the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is an applied economist by training and holds a PhD in behavioural environmental economics from the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, where he was based at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). His research takes an interdisciplinary approach, utilising applied economic methods such as microeconometrics and randomised controlled experiments to explore human decision-making and well-being in the face of climate change. His broad research interests are concerned with increasing individual and societal welfare by applying behavioural insights to pressing public policy challenges, with a current focus on sustainable food policy.
Research
Paul’s research follows an interdisciplinary approach by combining concepts and methods from behavioural economics, social psychology and empirical Microeconomics. There are three main themes to Paul’s work:
1) Encouraging sustainable food consumption: Policy design and evaluation
2) Estimating the effect of air pollution on social and economic behaviour: Advancing empirical identification using experimental designs.
3) Using behavioural science to tackle the climate crises: Understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying behavioural interventions
Publications
Lohmann, P., Pondorfer, A., & Rehdanz, K. (2019). Natural Hazards And Well-Being In A Small-Scale Island Society. Ecological Economics 159, 344-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.12.023
Working papers
Do Carbon Footprint Labels promote Climatarian Diets? Evidence from a large-scale Field Experiment" (with Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Anya Doherty & Andreas Kontoleon) Forthcoming: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Does Heat Wave and Flood Experience raise Concern about Climate Change? Causal Evidence from UK Weather Events (with Andreas Kontoleon)
Social Preferences and Economic Decision-Making in the Wake of COVID-19: Experimental Evidence from China (with Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Jing You, & Andreas Kontoleon) http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3705264
The Causal Effect of Air Pollution on Antisocial Behaviour (with Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Jing You, & Andreas Kontoleon). Pre-registered at https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.4856-1.0
High levels of air pollution reduce team innovation (with Benedict Probst, Elisabeth Gsottbauer, & Andreas Kontoleon). Under review: Scientific Reports. Pre-print at https://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1550765/v1.
Work in Progress
Turning up the heat: Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour through Warm Glow (with Sander van der Linden, Elisabeth Gsottbauer, & Andreas Kontoleon). Pre-registration at https://osf.io/gbmv7.
