TY  - GEN
AU  - Ajzenman, Nicolás
AU  - Balza, Lenin
AU  - Bejarano, Hernan
AU  - De Los Rios, Camilo
AU  - Gómez Parra, Nicolás
TI  - Seemingly irrelevant factors and willingness to block polluting investments
PY  - 2023
Y1  - 2023/12/19
DO  - 10.18235/0005369
AB  - Using an online multi-country video-vignette survey experiment, we measure bias against extractive industries and foreign firms in individuals perceptions and preferences related to industrial projects with potential economic benefits and environmental costs. Individuals face a hypothetical industrial investment project with a randomly assigned implementing firm, which varies in one or two dimensions: nationality (foreign or national), and industrial sector (extractive or generic). We elicit several incentivized and non-incentivized measures of acceptance of hypothetical investments. We find a precisely estimated null effect on willingness to pay to block the projects across experimental treatments: respondents express similar reactions to the same information independently of the firms origin or industrial sector.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0005369
ER  -