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| dc.title | Seemingly irrelevant factors and willingness to block polluting investments |
| dc.contributor.author | Ajzenman, Nicolás |
| dc.contributor.author | Balza, Lenin |
| dc.contributor.author | Bejarano, Hernan |
| dc.contributor.author | De Los Rios, Camilo |
| dc.contributor.author | Gómez Parra, Nicolás |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Energy Division |
| dc.coverage | Latin America |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-19T00:12:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2023-12-18T00:12:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. |
| dc.format.extent | 100 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0005369 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Seemingly-irrelevant-factors-and-willingness-to-block-polluting-investments.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Extractive Industry |
| dc.subject | Trust |
| dc.subject | Willingness to Pay |
| dc.subject.jelcode | C90 - Design of Experiments: General |
| dc.subject.jelcode | D70 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General |
| dc.subject.jelcode | D90 - Intertemporal Choice: General |
| dc.subject.jelcode | L71 - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels |
| dc.subject.jelcode | Q30 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: General |
| dc.subject.jelcode | Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects |
| dc.subject.keywords | experimental economics;extractive industries;Perceptions;willingness–to–pay;valuation |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | IDB-WP-01554 |
| idb.operation | RG-E1820 |