Ashton Pallottini

Ashton is a Ph.D. student at University of Chicago’s Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. His research is concentrated broadly at the intersection of Environmental Economics and Behavioral Economics.

Recently, his work has analyzed the impact of information provision on voluntary consumer action to mitigate environmental damages. It aims to show that labeling of a good’s environmental externalities is a low cost intervention to increase private and social welfare. It also points to the presence of social norms and social utility as large drivers of information suppression about environmental impacts of consumer goods.