School of Economics

Dr Andrea La Nauze

Research Fellow | on secondment to The Australian Institute for Business and Economics (AIBE)
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Researcher biography

Dr La Nauze is an environmental economist who focuses on household behaviour. Much of her research studies the retail electricity market in Australia and in particular the impacts of rooftop solar. She is particularly interested in behavioural responses to information and financial incentives and the unintended effects of environmental policy.

Publications

Book Chapter (1)
Journal Articles (11)
Working Paper (1)

Book Chapter

La Nauze, Andrea (2014). Financing for Sustainability. Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles and Practices . (pp. ---) edited by Debra Rowe. New York: Macmillan Reference USA.

Journal Articles

Jha, Akshaya and Nauze, Andrea La (2022). US Embassy air-quality tweets led to global health benefits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (44) 201092119, 1-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2201092119
Beattie, Graham, Ding, Iza and La Nauze, Andrea (2022). Is there an energy efficiency gap in China? Evidence from an information experiment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 115 102713, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102713
Charlson, Fiona, Ali, Suhailah, Augustinavicius, Jura, Benmarhnia, Tarik, Birch, Stephen, Clayton, Susan, Fielding, Kelly, Jones, Lynne, Juma, Damian, Snider, Leslie, Ugo, Victor, Zeitz, Lian, Jayawardana, Danusha, La Nauze, Andrea and Massazza, Alessandro (2022). Global priorities for climate change and mental health research. Environment International, 158 106984, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106984
La Nauze, Andrea (2021). Motivation crowding in peer effects: the effect of solar subsidies on green power purchases. Review of Economics and Statistics, 1-44. doi: 10.1162/rest_a_01124
Byrne, David P., La Nauze, Andrea and Martin, Leslie A. (2021). An experimental study of monthly electricity demand (in)elasticity. The Energy Journal, 42 (2), 205-222. doi: 10.5547/01956574.42.2.dbyr
Beattie, Graham, Han, Yi and La Nauze, Andrea (2019). Conservation spillovers: the effect of rooftop solar on climate change beliefs. Environmental and Resource Economics, 74 (3), 1425-1451. doi: 10.1007/s10640-019-00374-3
La Nauze, Andrea (2019). Power from the people: rooftop solar and a downward-sloping supply of electricity. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 6 (6), 949-982. doi: 10.1086/705535
La Nauze, Andrea and Mezzetti, Claudio (2019). Dynamic incentive regulation of diffuse pollution. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 93, 101-124. doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2018.11.009
Byrne, David P., La Nauze, Andrea and Martin, Leslie A. (2018). Tell me something I don't already know: informedness and the impact of information programs. Review of Economics and Statistics, 100 (3), 510-527. doi: 10.1162/rest_a_00695
Nemes, Veronika, La Nauze, Andrea, Walsh, Christopher J., Fletcher, Tim D., Bos, Darren G., RossRakesh, Sharyn and Stoneham, Gary (2016). Saving a creek one bid at a time: a uniform price auction for urban stormwater retention. Urban Water Journal, 13 (3), 232-241. doi: 10.1080/1573062x.2014.988732
La Nauze, Andrea (2015). Sexual orientation-based wage gaps in Australia: the potential role of discrimination and personality. Economic and Labour Relations Review, 26 (1), 60-81. doi: 10.1177/1035304615570806

Working Paper

La Nauze, Andrea and Severnini, Edson (2021). Air pollution and adult cognition: evidence from brain training. 28785. doi: 10.3386/w28785

Areas of research

Behavioural and Economic Science Cluster
Behavioural change
Behavioural industrial organisation