Publications

Published, peer-reviewed research, put to work in the field.

Academic articles, expert reports and an edited volume, drawn from ten years of research in behavioural and environmental economics — on waste, energy and mobility.

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Published articles
4
Working papers
1
Edited volume
2
Expert reports
26
Conferences & seminars
Articles

Peer-reviewed journals

2025

Nudging employees for greener mobility — A field experiment

with Raphaël Chiappini and Nabila Arfaoui — Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 199(C)
A field experiment run across 89 French firms over 54 weeks, testing the effect of different nudges and a financial incentive on 845 employees' use of polluting vehicles for their commute. Moral-appeal and loss-aversion nudges proved effective and durable; the financial incentive tested did not.
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2024

The Impact of Environmental Beliefs, Personal Values and Policy Perception on Recycling Behavior

with Nabila Arfaoui, Lisette Ibanez and Sébastien Roussel — Revue d'économie politique, 134(5), pp. 665-700
An original survey of 1,071 people across the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Grand Est regions — two areas with very different recycling rates despite identical national regulation. Awareness of consequences and a sense of individual responsibility consistently increase sorting, as does the perceived effectiveness of existing policy.
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2021

Under pressure! Nudging electricity consumption within firms. Feedback from a field experiment

with Christophe Charlier, Gilles Guerassimoff and Sandrine Selosse — The Energy Journal, vol. 42, no. 1
A field experiment run across 47 French company sites: the three nudges tested (moral appeal, social comparison, stickers) had no significant effect on their own, but became effective once moral appeal and social comparison were combined with the stickers.
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2019

Public policies for households recycling when reputation matters

with Christophe Charlier — Journal of Evolutionary Economics
A theoretical model of heterogeneous households trading off environmental preferences, the opportunity cost of taxation, and social reputation. Simulations compare three policies (tax incentive, information, individualised nudge) and quantify the reputation-driven crowding-out effect on residual waste.
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2019

Menacer, sanctionner ou conseiller ? Pro-sociaux vs individualistes : quels leviers incitatifs pour quels individus ?

(Threaten, sanction or advise? Pro-social vs. individualist: which incentives work for whom?) — with Agnès Festré and Mira Toumi — Revue économique, vol. 70(6), pp. 1125-1138
A public-goods game testing the effect of a third-party collective sanction versus a recommendation, alongside a social value orientation (SVO) test of participants. Sanctions generally outperform recommendations, but pro-social individuals are far less responsive to sanctions than individualists or competitors.
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2016

The determinants of household recycling: social influence, public policies and environmental preferences

Applied Economics, 48(16), pp. 1481-1503
A survey of 694 households in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the French region with the lowest recycling rate. A principal component analysis and probit model reveal a finding that runs counter to the literature: social influence has a negative, rather than positive, effect on recycling there.
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2016

One without the other? Behavioural and Incentive policies for Household Waste Management

Journal of Economic Surveys, 30(3), pp. 526-551
A review of the economics literature on combining multiple policies to tackle waste management, arguing for instruments built on information and behavioural levers rather than regulatory constraint alone.
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Working papers

Research in progress

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The pen might be mightier than the sword: How third-party advice or sanction impact on pro-environmental behavior

with Agnès Festré, Pierre Garrouste and Mira Toumi
An experimental study on the effect of third-party advice or sanctions on the adoption of pro-environmental behaviour.
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Societal acceptability of hydrogen vehicles through a choice experiment

with Olivier Damette (Université de Lorraine)
A choice experiment assessing the social acceptability of hydrogen vehicles compared with combustion-engine and electric vehicles.
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Adoption Drivers and Future Market Prospects for Alternative Fuel and Hydrogen Vehicles

with Olivier Damette and May Attallah — under revision, Transportation Research Part D
An analysis of adoption drivers and market prospects for alternative-fuel and hydrogen vehicles.
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La perception du juste salaire et entrée dans l'entrepreneuriat

(Fair wage perception and entry into entrepreneurship) — with Alexandra Rufini and Catherine Laffineur (Université Côte d'Azur)
A study of the link between the perception of a fair wage in salaried employment and the decision to become an entrepreneur.
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Expert reports

Studies commissioned by international organisations

2020

The Economic & Social Benefits of Recycling — 2020 Edition

with Raphael Chiappini and Yves Jegourel — report prepared for the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) by CyclOpe
An expert report on the economic and social benefits of recycling at international scale.
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2024

Behavioural Insight for Waste-sorting Labels in the European Union

with Olivier Beaumais, Nathalie Lazaric, Hendrik Bruns and Marion Dupoux — Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
A study on the contribution of behavioural science to the design of waste-sorting labels in the European Union.
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Outreach & media

Making research accessible beyond academia.

2024

Des incitations douces pour une mobilité plus douce ?

(Soft incentives for softer mobility?) — with Nabila Arfaoui and Raphaël Chiappini — The Conversation, 11 March 2024
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Book

Scientific editorship

Transition énergétique
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Presses des Mines
2018

Transition énergétique : les déchets ne sont pas en reste. Concept, applications et enjeux de la valorisation énergétique des déchets

Co-edited with Gilles Guerassimoff — Presses des Mines, 2018.

A collective volume on the conceptual, technical and economic challenges of waste-to-energy valorisation. (Title translates as: "Energy Transition: Waste Is Not Left Behind — Concepts, Applications and Challenges of Waste-to-Energy Valorisation")

Talks & seminars

Presented at more than 25 international conferences and seminars.

A selection of talks at the leading conferences in environmental and resource economics.

European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists — Annual Conference
LIMASSOL, 2023 · ATHÈNES, 2017 · HELSINKI, 2015
World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists
GÖTEBORG, 2018 · ISTANBUL, 2014
French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists — Annual Conference
RENNES, 2019 · NANCY, 2017 · TOULOUSE, 2015 · TOULON, 2015
Conference of International Federation of Operational Research Societies
QUÉBEC, 2017
French Economic Association — Annual Meeting
NICE, 2017 · LYON, 2014
Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference
LILLE, 2021
French Association of Experimental Economics — Conference
RENNES, 2017
Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, 2015
World Meeting of Economic Science Association — MIT Sloan
BOSTON, 2022