Alice Ciccone
Welcome!
I am a Senior Research Economist at the Institute of Transport Economics (TØI).
I am an applied economist, and my research interests span experimental, environmental, transport, behavioural and health economics. My work focuses on how policy design and behavioural insights can encourage sustainable and healthy behaviours.
Methodologically, I combine experimental and quasi-experimental approaches - including natural, field and survey-based experiments - with applied econometric analysis to study how behaviourally informed policies, incentives, and information affect individual decision-making and the acceptability of public policies. In particular, I explore how environmental and transport policies influence behaviour such as car ownership and use, carsharing, and sustainable or active mobility such as cycling and walking.
In 2021, I received the Young Talents for Groundbreaking Research grant (FRIPRO) from the Research Council of Norway to investigate the effectiveness and public acceptability of transport policies such as road pricing.
I hold a bachelor degree in mathematics, a master in statistics from the University of Turin (Italy) and a PhD in economics from the University of Oslo. I have been a Chazen Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (New York, USA) and an affiliated researcher at University College London (UCL) and the University of Greenwich.
Research Interests: Behavioural and Experimental Economics; Environmental and Health Economics; Transport and Mobility Behaviour