Targeted Information and Sustainable Consumption: Field Evidence
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Keywords
Information provision; pro-environmental behavior; sustainability; label credence goods; randomized controlled trial;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2024-12-02 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2024-12-02 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2024-12-02 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-NUD-2024-12-02 (Nudge and Boosting)
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