Daniel Martínez-Felip

About Me

I am a PhD candidate at the UWA Centre for Environmental Economics & Policy, supervised by Steven G.M. Schilizzi, Chi Nguyen, and David J. Pannell. Using laboratory experiments and agent-based modelling, I study the role of social norms and incentive mechanisms in shaping cooperative behaviour and collective action. My job market paper has been published in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics.

Research Interests

My research interests include the economics of behaviour and behavioural change, collective action, social change. More specifically, my current work focuses on the modelling and experimental study of the interplay between actual behaviour and normative expectations in collective action problems: which norms emerge and under what conditions, how they are sustained or destabilised, and when prosocial norms can arise endogenously without continuous external enforcement. I am also particularly interested in the drivers of endogenous behavioural change, both prosocial and antisocial, and the social enforcement mechanisms behind such dynamics, including norm breakdown and polarisation.