How much are individuals willing to pay to offset their carbon footprint? The role of information disclosure and social norms
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carbon footprint; willingness to pay; social norms; information disclosure;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-2022-09-26 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-ENE-2022-09-26 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2022-09-26 (Environmental Economics)
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