Roel van Veldhuizen

Roel van Veldhuizen is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Lund University. His research focuses on behavioral economics, particularly the psychological drivers of economic decisions in public, labor, and environmental contexts. He employs laboratory experiments to study topics like corruption drivers, gender differences in competitiveness, and resistance to environmental policies. Teaching includes microeconomics and behavioral economics courses for bachelor and master's programs. Active in research, he leads projects on moral decisions, AI in education, and causal mechanisms in gender disparities. Supervises theses in behavioral economics and applied microeconomics.

Research Projects:

• Moral Decisions: Leaders, Groups, and Dimensions (2024–2027)
• Generative Artificial Intelligence and Education (2024–2027)
• Cleanly Identifying Causal Mechanisms (2022–2025)

Teaching:

• Microeconomic Theory with Applications
• Economic and Financial Decision Making

Key Research Themes:

• Behavioral Public Economics: Corruption psychology
• Behavioral Labor Economics: Gender competitiveness
• Behavioral Environmental Economics: Policy resistance mechanisms

Recent Activities:

• Organized Copenhagen Network for Experimental Economics Workshop (Nov 2024)
• Presented work on self-promotion gender differences at multiple conferences