{"id":50874,"date":"2025-07-08T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?page_id=50874"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:13:32","slug":"carleton-economics-laboratory-for-behavioral-and-experimental-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/carleton-economics-laboratory-for-behavioral-and-experimental-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Economics Laboratory for Behavioral and Experimental Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Economics Laboratory for Behavioral and Experimental Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"about-the-lab\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The primary objective of this lab is to promote the principles of economic science by enabling researchers to conduct controlled experiments using human participants. Experimental data is then used to obtain new insights on the validity of behavioural theories as well as the performance of markets, economic mechanisms, and institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Beland, Louis-Philippe., \u201cTraffic Congestion, Transportation Policies, and the Performance of First Responders,\u201d (with Danny Brent),&nbsp;<em>Journal of Environmental Economics and Management<\/em>, 103, 102339, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beland, Louis-Philippe., \u201cThe Short Term Effect of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Workers in Canada,\u201d (with Tobi Fakorede and Derek Mikola),&nbsp;<em>Canadian Public Policy<\/em>, 46, S66-81 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beland, Louis-Philippe., \u201cEnvironmental Disaster, Pollution and Infant Health: Evidence from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill\u201d (with Sara Oloomi),&nbsp;<em>Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,&nbsp;<\/em>Vol. 98 (November 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 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