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Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods
| Resumo: | An impure public good is a commodity that combines public and private characteristics in fixed proportions. Green goods such as dolphin-friendly tuna or green electricity programmes provide increasingly popular examples of impure public goods. We design an experiment to test how the presence of impure public goods affects pro-social behaviour. We set parameters, such that from a theoretical point of view the presence of the impure public good is behaviourally irrelevant. In a baseline setting, where the impure public good provides only small contributions to the public good, we observe that on aggregate pro-social behaviour, defined as total contributions to the public good, is lower in the presence of the impure good. Some individuals do not alter their decisions, but roughly two fifths of subjects make a lower contribution to the public good in the presence of the impure public good. On the contrary, in the case where the impure public good favours the public good component at the expense of private earnings, individuals are unaffected in their behaviour. We conclude that the presence of green goods which have only a small environmental component may reduce pro-environmental behaviour. |
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| Autores principais: | Munro, Alistair |
| Outros Autores: | Valente, Marieta |
| Assunto: | Green goods Impure public goods Pro-social behaviour Social norms Experimental economics |
| Ano: | 2008 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | working paper |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
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| author | Munro, Alistair |
| author2 | Valente, Marieta |
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| datacite.creators.creator.creatorName.fl_str_mv | Munro, Alistair Valente, Marieta |
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| datacite.titles.title.fl_str_mv | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Munro, Alistair Valente, Marieta |
| dc.date.Accepted.fl_str_mv | 2008-11-01T00:00:00Z |
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| dc.language.none.fl_str_mv | eng |
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| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Green goods Impure public goods Pro-social behaviour Social norms Experimental economics |
| dc.title.fl_str_mv | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods |
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| description | An impure public good is a commodity that combines public and private characteristics in fixed proportions. Green goods such as dolphin-friendly tuna or green electricity programmes provide increasingly popular examples of impure public goods. We design an experiment to test how the presence of impure public goods affects pro-social behaviour. We set parameters, such that from a theoretical point of view the presence of the impure public good is behaviourally irrelevant. In a baseline setting, where the impure public good provides only small contributions to the public good, we observe that on aggregate pro-social behaviour, defined as total contributions to the public good, is lower in the presence of the impure good. Some individuals do not alter their decisions, but roughly two fifths of subjects make a lower contribution to the public good in the presence of the impure public good. On the contrary, in the case where the impure public good favours the public good component at the expense of private earnings, individuals are unaffected in their behaviour. We conclude that the presence of green goods which have only a small environmental component may reduce pro-environmental behaviour. |
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| spelling | engUniversidade do Minho. Núcleo de Investigação em Microeconomia Aplicada (NIMA)porAn impure public good is a commodity that combines public and private characteristics in fixed proportions. Green goods such as dolphin-friendly tuna or green electricity programmes provide increasingly popular examples of impure public goods. We design an experiment to test how the presence of impure public goods affects pro-social behaviour. We set parameters, such that from a theoretical point of view the presence of the impure public good is behaviourally irrelevant. In a baseline setting, where the impure public good provides only small contributions to the public good, we observe that on aggregate pro-social behaviour, defined as total contributions to the public good, is lower in the presence of the impure good. Some individuals do not alter their decisions, but roughly two fifths of subjects make a lower contribution to the public good in the presence of the impure public good. On the contrary, in the case where the impure public good favours the public good component at the expense of private earnings, individuals are unaffected in their behaviour. We conclude that the presence of green goods which have only a small environmental component may reduce pro-environmental behaviour.application/pdfporGreen goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goodsMunro, AlistairValente, MarietaHostingInstitutionOrganizationalUniversidade do Minhoe-mailmailto:repositorium@usdb.uminho.ptrepositorium@usdb.uminho.ptCITATIONNIMA Working Paper Series;372008-112008-11-01T00:00:00ZHandlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/11429http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2open accessGreen goodsImpure public goodsPro-social behaviourSocial normsExperimental economics298235 bytesFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.SFRH/BD/19130/2004https://hdl.handle.net/1822/103537SFRH/BD/19130/2004Crossref Funder IDhttp://doi.org/10.13039/501100001871other research producthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042working paperhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2application/pdfhttps://repositorium.uminho.pt/bitstreams/762042cf-f1cd-4a5e-a915-25c7d325a3bb/download |
| spellingShingle | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods Munro, Alistair Green goods Impure public goods Pro-social behaviour Social norms Experimental economics |
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| title | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods |
| title_full | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods |
| title_fullStr | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods |
| title_short | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods |
| title_sort | Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods |
| topic | Green goods Impure public goods Pro-social behaviour Social norms Experimental economics |
| topic_facet | Green goods Impure public goods Pro-social behaviour Social norms Experimental economics |
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