eprintid: 18927
rev_number: 29
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/01/89/27
datestamp: 2015-06-19 08:51:55
lastmod: 2016-01-11 08:16:48
status_changed: 2015-06-19 08:51:55
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Goeschl, Timo
creators_name: Kettner, Sara Elisa 
creators_name: Lohse, Johannes
creators_name: Schwieren, Christiane 
title: What do we learn from public good games about voluntary
climate action? Evidence from an artefactual field experiment
subjects: 330
divisions: 181000
abstract: Evidence from public good game experiments holds the promise of instructive and cost-effective insights to inform environmental policy-making, for example on climate change mitigation. To fulfill the promise, such evidence needs to demonstrate generalizability to the specific policy context. This paper examines whether and under which conditions such evidence generalizes to voluntary mitigation decisions. We observe each participant in two different decision tasks: a real giving task in which contributions are used to directly reduce CO2 emissions and a public good game. Through two treatment variations, we
explore two potential shifters of generalizability in a within-subjects design: the structural resemblance of contribution incentives between the tasks and the role of the subject pool, students and non-students. Our findings suggest that cooperation in public good games is linked to voluntary mitigation behavior, albeit not in a uniform way. For a standard set of parameters, behavior in both tasks is uncorrelated. Greater structural resemblance of the public goods game leads to sizable correlations, especially for student subjects.
date: 2015-06
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00018927
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0595
ppn_swb: 1657070794
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-189276
language: eng
bibsort: GOESCHLTIMWHATDOWELE201506
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0595
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 29
citation:   Goeschl, Timo ; Kettner, Sara Elisa  ; Lohse, Johannes ; Schwieren, Christiane   (2015) What do we learn from public good games about voluntary climate action? Evidence from an artefactual field experiment.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18927/1/goeschl_Kettner_Lohse_Schwieren_2015_dp595.pdf