Does lobbying discourage individuals from fighting climate change?

IF 1.6 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Raphael Epperson
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Lobbying is commonly expected to reduce climate protection. Does such a belief affect individuals’ own climate protection efforts? According to conditional cooperation, for example, it should discourage individuals from contributing. I investigate this issue of high policy relevance using an online experiment with a large heterogeneous sample from the German population. To identify the causal effect of citizens’ beliefs about the impact of lobbying on climate protection, I induce exogenous variation in these beliefs and measure subsequent individual behavior. I find some evidence for a discouragement effect: Expecting a more negative impact of lobbying reduces individual contributions to climate protection. While not all considered behaviors show a significant effect, treatment differences consistently point in the same direction. These results emphasize the risk of spillover effects through citizens’ beliefs and lend support to a more holistic approach when evaluating the consequences of lobbying or climate policies.
游说会阻碍个人对抗气候变化吗?
游说通常被认为会减少气候保护。这种信念会影响个人的气候保护努力吗?例如,根据有条件的合作,它应该阻止个人的贡献。我使用一个来自德国人口的大型异质样本的在线实验来调查这个与政策高度相关的问题。为了确定公民对游说对气候保护影响的信念的因果关系,我诱导了这些信念的外生变异,并测量了随后的个人行为。我发现了一些阻碍效应的证据:预期游说的负面影响会减少个人对气候保护的贡献。虽然并非所有被考虑的行为都显示出显著的效果,但治疗差异始终指向同一个方向。这些结果强调了通过公民信仰产生溢出效应的风险,并支持在评估游说或气候政策的后果时采用更全面的方法。
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113
审稿时长
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly the Journal of Socio-Economics) welcomes submissions that deal with various economic topics but also involve issues that are related to other social sciences, especially psychology, or use experimental methods of inquiry. Thus, contributions in behavioral economics, experimental economics, economic psychology, and judgment and decision making are especially welcome. The journal is open to different research methodologies, as long as they are relevant to the topic and employed rigorously. Possible methodologies include, for example, experiments, surveys, empirical work, theoretical models, meta-analyses, case studies, and simulation-based analyses. Literature reviews that integrate findings from many studies are also welcome, but they should synthesize the literature in a useful manner and provide substantial contribution beyond what the reader could get by simply reading the abstracts of the cited papers. In empirical work, it is important that the results are not only statistically significant but also economically significant. A high contribution-to-length ratio is expected from published articles and therefore papers should not be unnecessarily long, and short articles are welcome. Articles should be written in a manner that is intelligible to our generalist readership. Book reviews are generally solicited but occasionally unsolicited reviews will also be published. Contact the Book Review Editor for related inquiries.
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