Carattini, Stefano

Stefano Carattini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. 

His fields of interest are environmental economics, political economy, behavioral economics, and public economics.

He is interested in policy evaluation, to examine how policies work, as well as their political economy, in particular people's understanding of and support for (ex-ante) unpopular policies. His research in this space aims at generating new evidence while also providing methodological contributions, such as the causal analysis of public support and around information provision, with the integration of computable general equilibrium models in surveys as well as by addressing scaling issues through Facebook ads or randomized access to climate education. 

He also studies the implications of the transition to a cleaner economy for workers, firms, as well as the economy more in general, including questions of asset stranding and systemic risk. 

His research also examines the diffusion of pro-environmental and pro-social behaviors, practices, and technologies and the role of cooperation in local and global social dilemmas at large.

His research combines applied microeconometric techniques for observational studies and, when causal identification in the current state of the world is not possible, field experiments. His research also relies on surveys to uncover what is on people's minds and otherwise invisible to the researcher. Theoretical models are also used when thinking about policies that are not yet in place.