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Doctoral thesis

Three essays on behavioral and experimental economics

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  • Fribourg, Switzerland, 2025

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PhD: Université de Fribourg (Suisse), 15.12.2025

Université de Fribourg (Fribourg, Suisse)
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Suisse
English Economics is fundamentally a science of human behavior, seeking to understand how individuals and institutions make choices. This thesis contributes to the literature on behavioral economics by presenting three independent studies, each using experimental methods. The first is a lab-based randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in Switzerland with students from multiple subject pools. The second is an online RCT with students from the University of Fribourg. The third, by contrast, is an online survey using a sample of UK residents recruited through Prolific. Chapter 1 investigates whether consuming meat makes individuals more likely to avoid information about its environmental, animal-welfare, and health-related harms. The findings suggest that meat consumption causes some information avoidance, but the effects are nuanced as they are meat-specific and topic-specific. Chapter 2 examines whether a one-month pledge to reduce meat consumption influences meat and meat substitute consumption, as well as the justifications for meat consumption, through a randomized experiment. The results indicate that participation in the program reduces meat consumption in both the short and long term, temporarily increases meat substitute consumption, and initially lowers justifications for meat consumption, though this latter effect fades over time. Chapter 3 explores the influence of gender and sexual orientation on confidence. This study finds that while the gender gap in confidence persists, sexual orientation affects women’s outcomes but not men’s. Lesbian women exhibit a much smaller gender gap in confidence than the typical gap observed between men and women.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/334155
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