Research

Research.

Here you can find my publications, the list of working papers (papers that appear on working paper series but not yet published), and my work-in-progress (drafts I am working on).

Research interests: Environment | Wellbeing | Health | Policy Evaluation

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

Sejas-Portillo, R., Moro, M., Stowasser, T. (2025) "The Simpler the Better? Threshold Effects of Energy Labels on Property Prices and Energy-Efficiency Investments". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. {Forthcoming}

Damar, E., Lange, I., McKennie, C. Moro, M. (2024) “Banking deregulation and consumption of home durables”, Climatic Change, 177, 37.

Higney, A., Moro, M., Hanley, N. (2022) “The lead-crime hypothesis: A meta-analysis”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 97, 103826 {DOI}

Brown, S., Kontonikas, A., Montagnoli, A., Moro, M., Onnis, L. (2021) "Life Satisfaction and Austerity: Expectations and the Macroeconomy", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. 95: 101780. {DOI}

Comerford, D., Moro, M., Sejas-Portillo, R., Stowasser, T. (2021) "Leveraging the Motivational Effects of Labels: Lessons from Retrofitting", Behavioral Science and Policy. 7(2), 17-25 [pre-print] {DOI}

Gray, D., Montagnoli, A., Moro, M. 2021 "Does Education Improve Financial Behaviors? Quasi-experimental Evidence from Britain", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 185: 481-507. {DOI}

Howley, P., Waqas, M., Moro, M., Delaney, L., Heron T. 2020. "It's Not All About the Economy Stupid! Immigration and Subjective Well-being in England",  Work, Employment and Society, 34(5): 919-936. {DOI}

Hart, R.A., Moro, M. 2020. “Date of Birth and Selective Schooling: Some Lessons from the 1944 Education Reforms in England and Wales”, Scottish Journal of Political Economy. 65(5): 523-538. {DOI}

Angelini V., Daly M., Moro M., Navarro Paniagua M., Sidman E., Walker I., Weldon M. 2019. "The effect of the Winter Fuel Payment on household temperature and health: a regression discontinuity design study". Public Health Res. 7(1). {DOI}

Lange, I, Moro, M., Mahbubur Rahman, M. 2018. “Cleaner Nudges? Policy Labels and Investment Decision Making” Energy Journal, 39 (6): 27-51. {DOI}

Comerford, D, Lange, I, Moro, M. 2018. “Proof of Concept that Requiring Energy Labels for Dwellings Can Induce Retrofitting” Energy Economics, 69: 204-212. {DOI}

Montagnoli, A and Moro, M. 2018. “The cost of banking crises: new evidence from life satisfaction data” Kyklos, 71 (2): 279-309. {DOI}

Hart, R.A., Roberts E., Moro, M. 2017. “Who Gained from Free Universal Education in England and Wales?” Oxford Economic Papers, 69 (3): 707-733. {DOI}

Blanchflower, D. G., D. N. F. Bell, A. Montagnoli,  Moro, M. 2014. “The Happiness Tradeoff Between Unemployment and Inflation.” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 46 (2):117-141. {DOI}

Lange, I. A., Moro, M., L. Traynor. 2014 “Green Hypocrisy? Electricity Expenditures and Environmental Attitudes in UK.” Ecological Economics, 107: 76-83. {DOI}

Moro, M., Anke Fischer, E.J. Milner-Gulland , Asanterabi Lowassa, Loiruck C. Naiman, and Nick Hanley. 2014. “A stated preference investigation of household demand for illegally hunted bushmeat in the Serengeti, Tanzania”, Animal Conservation, 18 (4): 377-386. {DOI}

Moro, M., Lyons, S., Mayor, K. and R. J. Tol. 2013. “Does the housing market reflect cultural heritage? A case study of Greater Dublin.” Environment and Planning A, 45 (12): 2884-2903. {DOI}

Bush, G., Hanley, N., Moro, M., Rondeau D. 2013. “Measuring the Local Costs of Conservation: A Provision Point Mechanism for Willingness-to-Accept Estimates” Land Economics, 89 (3), 490-513. {DOI}

Ferreira, S. and Moro, M. 2013. “Income and Preferences for the Environment: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data.” Environment and Planning A, 45(1): 650 – 667. {DOI}.

Akay, A., F. Brereton, J Cuñado, S. Ferreira, P. Martinsson, M. Moro, T. Ningal. 2013. “Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe.” Ecological Economics, 88: 1-10. {DOI}

Moro, M., Fischer, A., Czajkowski, M., Brennan, D., Lowassa, A., Naiman C. L., and Nick Hanley. 2013. “An investigation using the choice experiment method into options for reducing illegal bushmeat hunting in western Serengeti.” Conservation Letters, 6 (1): 37-45. {DOI}

Ferreira, S. and Moro, M. 2011. “Constructing Genuine Savings Indicators for Ireland, 1995-2005.” Journal of Environmental Management, 92: 542-553.

Ferreira, S. and Moro, M. 2010. “On the Use of Subjective Well-being Data for Environmental Valuation.” Environmental and Resource Economics, 46 (3): 249.

Mentzakis, E. and Moro, M. 2009. “The Poor the Rich and the Happy.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 38(1): 147-158.

Moro, M., Brereton, F., Clinch, J.P. and Ferreira, S. 2008. “Ranking Quality of Life Using Subjective Well-being Data.” Ecological Economics, 65(3): 448-460.

WORKING PAPERS

Lange I, McKennie, C., Moro, M., “Less is More: The Impact of Auto Lender Risk on Household Auto Purchases” {Version: July 2022}

Brown S., Kontonikas, A., Montagnoli, A., Moro, M., Paputsakoi, D., Sas, W. "Who Cares? Attitudes toward redistribution and fiscal austerity" {Version: November 2021}

Rufrancos H., Moro, M., "The impact of university reopenings on COVID-19 cases in Scotland" {Version: June 2021}

Panos, G. Montagnoli, A, Moro, M, Wright R E. "Financial Literacy and Attitudes To Redistribution” {Version: March 2017}

WORK-IN-PROGRESS
"Norm diagnosis of a collective action problem: Evidence from plastic littering in Malawi" (with Shruti Surachita and Kondwani Chidziwisano)

"The Impact of Lead Water Pollution on Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment in Scotland" (with Nick Hanley and Anthony Higney)

“The Impact of lead on education: A natural experiment in Glasgow” (with Anthony Higney, Nick Hanley, Anne Gasteen)

"Booms and mental health: evidence from shale-gas activities" (with Caitlin McKennie)

PUBLICATIONS AS BOOK CHAPTERS
“Spatial variation in life satisfaction” (with S Ferreira, M Ahmadiani, F Brereton), in Handbook on Well-being, Happiness, and the Environment, 2020, edited by David Maddison, Katrin Rehdanz and Heinz Welsch.

PUBLICATIONS OF ANALYSIS, POLICY PAPERS, POSTS
“Measuring the Impact of Immigration on Subjective Wellbeing”, 2021 (with Peter Howley) in Nuffield Foundation Opinion.

“COVID-19 mortality and long-term care: a UK comparison”, 2020, (with Bell D, Comas-Herrera A, Henderson D, Jones S, Lemmon E, Murphy S, O’Reilly D and Patrignani, LTCcovid.org, International Long- Term Care Policy Network, CPEC-LSE, August 2020.

“Deaths in the Scottish care homes and COVID-19”, 2020 (with D Bell, D Henderson and E Lemmon), LTCcovid, International Long-Term Care Policy Network, CPEC-LSE, 9 June 2020.

“Socio-Demographic Characteristics of the HAGIS pilot sample”, 2018 (with Tanya Wilson) in Healthy Ageing in Scotland: the pilot survey, edited by Elaine Douglas, Tanya Wilson, David Bell

“Financial Literacy”, 2018 (with David Bell, Elaine Douglas, and Tanya Wilson) in Healthy Ageing in Scotland: the pilot survey, edited by Elaine Douglas, Tanya Wilson, David Bell

“Grammar schools have a long history of being dominated by middle-class children”, 2016 (With Bob Hart). Conversation UK

“The Supply-side Effects of Energy Efficiency Labels” 2016. Payne Institute Policy Briefs 2016-01, Colorado School of Mines.

“Policy Labels and Investment Decision-making: The case of the Winter Fuel Payment”, (With Ian Lange and Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman), 2015. Policy Brief, Payne Institute for Earth Resources, Colorado School of Mines.

“Psychic losses and economics: New research shows that banking crises have a long-term scarring effect on individuals”, 2015. Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute.

“Using Subjective Wellbeing for Energy Policy Analysis” (With H. Welsch, S. Ferreira, P Biermann, F Brereton, André Müller, T Ningal), 2014. Swiss Federal Office of Energy SFOE.

“What’s in a Name? The Winter Fuel Payment Nudges Recipients Away from Installing Renewable Energy Technologies” (with Ian A Lange and Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman), 2014. Policy brief for Nuffield Foundation.

“Economics of Hunting: Values, contributions and impacts” (with Nils Bunnefeld), 2014. Report to the European Federation for Hunting and Conservation.

“Air Quality Linked to well-being at a regional level in Europe”, 2013 (With Ferreira, S., A. Akay, F. Brereton, J. Cuñado, P. Martinsson, and T. Ningal), Science for Environment Policy, European Commission DG, Environment News Alert Service, Issue 335, 4th July 2013.

“Review of MacKerron, G. ‘Happiness Economics from 35,000 feet’”, 2011. Invited commentary at Wiley Economics Online Conference.

“Technical report on GIS Analysis, Mapping and Linking of Contextual Data to the European Social Survey”, 2011, (with Finbarr Brereton, Tine F Ningal and Susana Ferreira).

“Understanding and measuring quality of life in Ireland: sustainability, happiness and well-being” (with Finbarr Brereton, J. Peter Clinch, Susana Ferreira, Craig Bullock). 2006. Briefing paper for Cohmar National Conference “Towards Sustainability in the National Development Plan 2007 – 2013”.

“National and Regional Physical Accounts (Material Flows) for the United Kingdom” (with Tom Wiedmann, Mark Hammer & John Barrett), 2005. REAP Report No. 4, Resources and Energy Analysis Program, Stockholm Environment Institute, York.