eprintid: 23030
rev_number: 16
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3114
dir: disk0/00/02/30/30
datestamp: 2017-06-07 08:54:33
lastmod: 2017-06-14 11:28:56
status_changed: 2017-06-07 08:54:33
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Diederich, Johannes
creators_name: Goeschl, Timo
title: Does Mitigation Begin At Home?
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
abstract: In a climate system that is indifferent about where mitigation is carried out, the logic of comparative advantages favors abatement locations in developing and rapidly industrializing countries. There is evidence, however, that citizens of industrialized countries who voluntarily fund climate mitigation activities are not indifferent about the mitigation location. In our artifactual online experiment, subjects located in a
European Union member state took a dichotomous choice between a cash prize and the verified mitigation of one metric ton of CO2. The treatment condition varied the location of the mitigation activity between the European Union and developing countries. We test whether the location impacts on the probability that the mitigation activity is chosen, harnessing between- and within-subject Variation in our panel data. Our evidence shows that subjects responded to the location being made salient, but, contrary to previous concerns, were indifferent between mitigation sites in the EU or developing countries.
date: 2017-06
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00023030
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0634
ppn_swb: 890703779
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-230306
language: eng
bibsort: DIEDERICHJDOESMITIGA201706
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0634
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Diederich, Johannes ; Goeschl, Timo  (2017) Does Mitigation Begin At Home?  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23030/2/__ad.uni-heidelberg.de_wiso_u.arnold_Desktop_Diederich_Goeschl_2017_dp0634.pdf