Research Centres
Choice Research Centre (CRC)
Choice Research Centre (CRC)
About us
The Choice Research Centre (CRC) advances behavioural and economic knowledge to create positive social impact. It investigates human behaviour by combining theoretical and empirical approaches, using methods such as laboratory experiments and randomised controlled trials to design scalable interventions. Drawing on in-house expertise, the Centre delivers both fundamental and applied research that deepens our understanding of human behaviour and translates it into real-world solutions.
The Choice Research Centre also promotes research-inspired education. A core part of its mission is to support the development of early-stage researchers through doctoral supervision and mentoring. The Centre is committed to producing world-leading, interdisciplinary research in behavioural and economic sciences, with the goal of driving innovation and meaningful change—particularly for the benefit of future generations and society at large.
The cluster also hosts the LExEcon (Leicester Experimental Economics) Laboratory, a state-of-the-art facility that supports behavioural research and teaching. The lab enables high-quality experimental work and serves as a platform for student engagement and methodological innovation. See LExEcon Laboratory for further details.
Professor Fabio Tufano, Director
Professor Fabio Tufano is the Director of the Choice Research Centre and a Professor of Applied Microeconomics at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ College of Business.
Dr Tingyan Jia, Deputy Director
Dr Tingyan Jia is the Deputy Director of the Choice Research Centre and a Lecturer at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ College of Business.
Management group members
Dr Agustina Martinez (Seminar organiser)
Dr Agustina Martinez is a Lecturer in Economics at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ College of Business and the seminar organiser for the Choice Research Centre.
Dr Mert Gumren
Dr Mert Gumren is a Lecturer in Economics at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ College of Business and the Communications Officer for the Choice Research Centre.
Dr Kaustav Das
Dr Kaustav Das is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ College of Business and a member of the Choice Research Centre management group.
Dr Deepti Bhatia
Dr Deepti Bhatia is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ School of Business and a member of the Choice Research Centre management group.
Chang Yu
Chang Yu is a PhD student in Economics and a member of the Choice Research Centre management group.
External seminars
Past seminars
2025
8 May
Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
30 April
Daniel Zizzo (University of Queensland)
Why Behave like Sheep? Understanding Compliance and Peer Effects
1.30pm - 2.45pm, Room 0.53, Brookfield
24 April
Larry Samuelson (Yale University)
The Economics of Latent Representations
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
10 April
Andrew Ellis (LSE)
Equilibrium Effects of Machine Learning
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Mary Seacole 0.05, Brookfield
27 March
Eleonora Guarnieri (University of Bristol)
Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction (with Ana Tur-Prats)
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Mary Seacole 0.05, Brookfield
12 March
Adam Brzezinski (LSE)
Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
1.30pm - 2.45pm, Room 0.45, Brookfield
27 February
Zahra Murad (University of Portsmouth)
The signals we give: Performance feedback, gender, and competition
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
6 February
Anandi Mani
Customized cash transfers: financial lives and cash-flow preferences in rural Kenya
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
2024
12 December
Mateusz Stalinski (University of Warwick)
Politics of Food: An Experiment on Trust in Expert Regulation and Economic Costs of Political Polarization
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
28 November
Matthew Ridley (University of Warwick)
Mental Illness Discrimination
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.43, Brookfield
14 November
Rebecca McDonald (University of Birmingham)
Are distributional preferences for safety linked to age and health status? (joint with D. Arroyos-Calvera and J. Covey)
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.43, Brookfield
31 October
Caroline Liqui Lung (University of Cambridge)
Multidimensional Social Identities and Individual Choice Behavior: The Pitfalls and Opportunities
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.02, Brookfield
17 October
Alex Chan (Harvard Business School)
Opt In? Opt Out?
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.43, Brookfield
20 June
Gabriele Camera (Chapman University)
Cooperation in indefinitely repeated helping games
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.05, Brookfield
30 May
Federica Liberini (Queen Mary University of London)
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
16 May
Friederike Mengel (University of Essex)
Influence in Social Networks
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
25 April
Lucia Reisch (University of Cambridge)
Climate Nudging in the Food System
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
18 April
Dagmara Celi Katreniak (City University of London)
Enhancing the Capital Gains Tax on Property Compliance
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
11 April
Nathan Canen (University of Warwick)
Innovation Adoption by Committee: Evaluating Decision-Making in the FDA
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
26 March
Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University)
Against totalitarianism: the value of a history education in countering extremist ideology
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
14 March
Ed Hopkins (King's College)
College as a Signal of Self-Control: Theory and Evidence
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
29 February
David Kretschmer (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
The Interplay of Gender and Religion in Creating Religious Friendship Segregation among Muslim Youth: Observational and Experimental Evidence from Germany
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
2023
7 December
Simon Gaechter (University of Nottingham)
Inaugural BeES Seminar
The Complementarity of Good Institutions and Voluntary Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from 43 Societies
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
Work-in-progress seminars
Past seminars 2025
12 June
Paul Schaefer
Additional Treatments to the Paper on Friendship
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Mary Seacole 0.05, Brookfield
5 June
Marta Mangiarulo
Exploring Minimal Group Effects in Repeated Social Dilemmas
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
29 May
Mert Gumren and Deepti Bhatia
Social Image Concerns and AI Use
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
Past seminars 2024
23 May
Charles-Cadogan (Â鶹ÊÓƵ)
Room 0.09, Brookfield
18 April
Dagmara Celi Katreniak (City University of London)
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
21 March
Tingyan Jia (Â鶹ÊÓƵ)
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
22 February
Paul Schäfer (Â鶹ÊÓƵ)
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
Past seminars 2023
14 December
Fabrizio Andriani (Â鶹ÊÓƵ)
3.00pm - 4.00pm, Room 0.09, Brookfield
LExEcon (Leicester Experimental Economics) Laboratory
LExEcon is dedicated to applying experimental methods to economics and business research. Embedded within the College of Business, the laboratory serves as both a valuable research resource for academic staff and a platform for enriching the student experience.
The laboratory is supported by a dedicated laboratory manager who oversees all aspects of its operation, including session coordination, software development, and technical management.
The College is actively recruiting participants for upcoming experiments. Participants are compensated for their time and effort with payments made via PayPal. You can register online to take part.
Laboratory Manager: Dr Deepti Bhatia
PhD supervision topics
CRC members are happy to supervise PhD students in a number of areas in behavioural and economic sciences including (but not limited to):
- Auctions and market behaviour
- Behavioural game theory
- Development and evaluation of health interventions
- Diversity
- Education
- Labour and Economics of Organisations
- Experimental Economics
- Hate crime and extremism
- Identity Economics
- Inequality
- Individual decision-making
- Public goods and redistribution
- Political economy
- Police decision-making and crime analysis
- Risky choice
- Social networks
- Social norms and similarity judgements
- Salience and attention