Research

Advanced articles

Fun and change: video game edutainment promotes pro-environmental behaviour? (with Ximeng Fang and Sonja Vogt) – link to working paper

The role of social norms and economic reasoning on support for carbon pricing (with Ximeng Fang) revisions requested Journal of Environmental Economics and Management – link to working paper

Should I stay or should I go: Intentions to freelance across 16 countries (with Adam Ferris) – revisions requested Small Business Economics

Search Behavior and Labor Market Frictions: Implications for Modeling and Policy (with Ebba Mark and Maria del Rio-Chanona) – Submitted

Published articles

Bharadwaj, P. Innocenti, S. (2026) Securing Public Support for Fuel Subsidy Reform: Experimental and Policymaker Insights from Malaysia. Energy Economics 153(109051)

Milinski, M., Innocenti, S. (2026) Climate extreme events and climate change are enforced by extortionate freeriders overloading those who mitigate – an economic experiment Ecological Economics 241(108866)

Fang, X. , Ettinger, J., Innocenti, S. (2025). United Nations Environment Assembly attendees underestimate public willingness to contribute to climate action. Communications Earth and Environment (Nature portfolio)– Media coverage: The Guardian

Byfuglien, A. , Kvakkestad, V., Innocenti, S. (2025). Mitigation and adaptation in agriculture: Effects of framing on farmers’ policy support and sustainable practices. Climatic Change 178(64).

Innocenti, S., Brunckhorst, B., Katuva, J. Koehler, J. (2025). Community decisions to insure against collective risk: the case of maintenance services for rural water infrastructure. Journal of Development Studies, pp.1-26

Byfuglien, A., van Valkengoed, A. , Innocenti, S. (2025). Good intentions, limited action: when do farmers’ intentions to adopt sustainable farming practices turn into actual behaviour?. Journal of Environmental Psychology 102, pp. 102522

Wagner, J, Werner, S., Innocenti,S., Geling, A., Hope, R. (2025). Can solar water kiosks generate sustainable revenue streams for rural water services?. World Development, 108

Clark, G. L., Hoefer, M., & Innocenti, S. (2024). Geographical variations in risk tolerance and the use of financial instruments: evidence from a multi-jurisdictional survey. Finance and Space, 1(1), pp. 431–459.

Innocenti, S., Clark, G. L, McGill,S. (2023). Experience of financial challenges, retirement concerns and planning: Evidence from representative samples of workers in 16 countries. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, pp. 1-19. PDF

Innocenti, S. and Golin, M. (2022). Human capital investment and perceived automation risks: Evidence from 16 countries. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 95, pp. 27-41. PDF

Innocenti, S. and Cowan, R. (2019) Self-efficacy beliefs and imitation: a two armed bandit experiment. European Economic Review, 113, pp. 156-172. PDF

Innocenti, S., Clark, G. L, McGill, S. and Cunado, J. (2019). The effect of past health events on intentions to purchase insurance: evidence from 11 countries. Journal of Economic Psychology, 74, pp. 102204. PDF

COVID-19

Freeman D., Loe B., Chadwick A., Vaccari C., Waite F., Rosebrock L., Jenner L., Petit A.,  Lewandowsky S., Vanderslott S., Innocenti S., Larkin M., Giubilini A., Yu L.M., McShane H., Pollard A.J. and Lambe S. (2020). COVID-19 Vaccine hesitancy in the UK: The Oxford Coronavirus Explanations, Attitudes and Narrative Survey (OCEANS) II. Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-15. PDF

Chadwick A., Kasier J., Vaccari C., Freeman D., Lambe S. , Loe B., Vanderslott. S., Lewandowsky S., Conroy M., Ross A., Innocenti S., Pollard A.J., Waite F., Larkin M., Rosebrock L., Jenner L., McShane H., Giubilini A., Petit A. and Yu L.M. (2021) Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Social Media+Society

Freeman D., Loe B., Yu L.M., Freeman J, Chadwick A., Vaccari C., Shanyinde M., Harris V., Waite F., Rosebrock L., Petit A., Vanderslott S., Lewandowsky S., Larkin M., Innocenti S., Pollard A.J., McShane H., and Lambe S. (2021) Reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy a randomised controlled trial of the effects of different types of vaccination information, The Lancet Public Health, 6(6), pp. 416-427

Freeman D., Lambe S., Yu L.M., Freeman J, Waite F., Chadwick A., Vaccari C., Rosebrock L., Petit A., Vanderslott S., Lewandowsky S., Larkin M., Innocenti S., McShane H., Pollard A.J., and Loe B. (2021) Injection fears and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, Psychological Medicine, pp. 1-24.

Work in progress

The power of VR in climate communication (with Ximeng Fang, and Josh Ettinger)

Endogenous self-reinforcement in binary choice models with global interactions

Who, what, where gets left behind? Incorporating preferences and behavioural attributes into an agent-based labour market model (with Mark Ebba and Del Rio-Chanona Maria)

Interpersonal Distance and the Structure of Social Preferences(with Ximeng Fang and Mads Hoefer)

Doctoral Dissertation

On Institutional Persistence, 2018, Maastricht University Press. PDF