About the EAERE Winter School 2026

EAERE Winter School on people’s understanding of and support for environmental policies

Savoie Mont Blanc University, Annecy-le-Vieux (France), March 16 – 20, 2026

The Institute for Research in Management and economics (IREGE), and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) organise the 2025-2029 EAERE Winter School series in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students, locally organised by the University Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB).

The 2026 EAERE Winter School will address the topic “People’s understanding of and support for environmental policies” and will take place from 16 to 20 March 2026 in Annecy-le-Vieux, close to Annecy, France.

 Objectives

Many policies that environmental economists recommend are not implemented because (ex-ante) unpopular. The winter school aims at preparing the next generation of thought leaders studying people’s understanding of and support for environmental policies. The winter school has a strong focus on methodology and on identifying research questions at the frontier of knowledge.

Lectures and teachers

​Day 1: Stefano Carattini, Georgia State University – Literature review and Causal analysis of public support

Day 2: Stefano Carattini, Georgia State University – Experimental design
Steffen Kallbekken, University of Oslo – Lab experiments I

Day 3: Linda Steg, University of Groningen – Insights from social psychology

Day 4: Pamela Giustinelli, Bocconi University – Belief elicitation

Erik Eyster, University of California, Santa Barbara – Lab experiments II

School Organising Committee

Local Lead Organiser: Aude Pommeret
Local organisers: Dorothée Charlier, Andrea Rangel, Estelle Burnet (research assistant) and Gersende Gatellet (administrative assistant)