Apr
17
Adopting LEDs changes attitudes towards climate change
Through a longitudinal, incentivized field experiment with Chinese households, we assess [...]
Yu Gao
After completing her PhD in Behavioral Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Yu worked as a post-doc researcher at Politecnico di Milano from 2016 to 2018 and is now Assistant Professor at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing.
She holds an MSc in Economics from Tinbergen Institute at University of Amsterdam. Yu loves experiments, both laboratory and field. She is interested in applying her knowledge in human decision making to public policy.
Within COBHAM, she worked on understanding people’s energy consumption using behavioral tools and behavioral interventions to help people make better decisions.
She is a runner and tries to run (half) marathons in a lot of places in the world.
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Dec
20
Context matters
In a recent experiment we conducted in China, we found that the current level of air pollution [...]
Oct
25
Why do women still earn a lot less than men?
Contrary to popular belief, it is not because employers pay women less than men for doing the [...]
Jun
30
Choose between bad and terrible
These are the only two options left, according to a group of researchers who reviewed over [...]
Apr
27
The lottery of electric vehicles
The main practical reasons why people do not buy electric vehicles are still charging [...]
Mar
1
Can the Paris agreement survive without the US?
Since Trump won the US elections, the big question at the core of the climate arena is [...]
Oct
20
Sports’ results do matter!
Watching you favorite team lose a big game can be tough to handle... but it's actually worse [...]
Jun
13
Moving to opportunity
Does growing up in a disadvantaged social environment affect a person’s earnings, education, [...]
May
2
Experience with climate change
There are two kinds of uncertainties in life. For the first type, you have information sources [...]
Mar
25
I don’t want to know!
It may sound counter-intuitive that people would strategically avoid costless useful [...]
Feb
8
Share everything
Utility companies are replacing traditional electric, gas and water meters with smart meters. [...]
Jan
29
Freedom of choice
A choice architect is the person who organizes the context in which people make decisions.
Dec
18
Judge what is fair
After COP21 had successfully been concluded in Paris, the focus of climate negotiations will [...]