Is Fairness Blind? – The effect of framing on preferencesfor effort-sharing rules

By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharingrules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do notrank the rule favoring their own country highest. Instead, they prefer the rule where allcountries are allowed to emit an equal amount per person, a rule that favors Africa at theexpense of high emitters such as the U.S. The least preferred rule is reduction proportional tohistorical emissions. Using two different treatments, one where the respondents wereinformed about the country names and one where the country names were replaced withanonymous labels A-D, we also test whether people’s preferences for effort-sharing rulesdepend on the framing of the problem.[...]