气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The relationship between willingness to pay and carbon footprint knowledge: Are individuals willing to pay more to offset their carbon footprint if they learn about its size and distance to the 1.5 °C target?

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DOI	10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108151
	The relationship between willingness to pay and carbon footprint knowledge: Are individuals willing to pay more to offset their carbon footprint if they learn about its size and distance to the 1.5 °C target?
	Schleich, Joachim; Alsheimer, Sven
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0921-8009
EISSN	1873-6106
起始页码	219
卷号	219
英文摘要	We examine individuals' willingness to pay to offset their carbon footprint (WTPO) in response to receiving information about (i) their own carbon footprint size (size nudge), and (ii) receiving information about their own carbon footprint size and the gap with per-capita GHG emissions consistent with the 1.5 degrees C target (distance-totarget nudge). We employ a demographically representative online survey among the adult population in Germany which includes a carbon footprint calculator and the randomized information nudges. Results from estimating double-hurdle regression models suggest that the size nudge increases participants' average WTPO by about one third. Yet, we find only limited support that the distance-to-target nudge affects participants' WTPO. We further find that participants' response to the information nudge is primarily effective for younger participants, females, participants with mid-range income, with high levels of education, and with low to medium-sized carbon footprints, ceteris paribus. Further, the WTPO is positively related with income, education, carbon literacy, and environmental preferences. Also, participants tend to underestimate the size of their carbon footprint relative to that of others. We find no evidence, however, that participants' WTPO depends on whether they believe that their carbon footprint is lower or higher than that of others.
英文关键词	Carbon footprint; Willingness to pay; Information disclosure; Nudging; Experiment
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Business & Economics
WOS类目	Ecology ; Economics ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001200026000001
来源期刊	ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/298016
作者单位	Grenoble Ecole Management; Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schleich, Joachim,Alsheimer, Sven. The relationship between willingness to pay and carbon footprint knowledge: Are individuals willing to pay more to offset their carbon footprint if they learn about its size and distance to the 1.5 °C target?[J],2024,219.
APA	Schleich, Joachim,&Alsheimer, Sven.(2024).The relationship between willingness to pay and carbon footprint knowledge: Are individuals willing to pay more to offset their carbon footprint if they learn about its size and distance to the 1.5 °C target?.ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS,219.
MLA	Schleich, Joachim,et al."The relationship between willingness to pay and carbon footprint knowledge: Are individuals willing to pay more to offset their carbon footprint if they learn about its size and distance to the 1.5 °C target?".ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS 219(2024).