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Conservation : From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium

Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2013

This paper investigates how concern for the environment translates into predictable patterns of consumer behavior. Two types of behavior are considered. First, individuals who care about environmental quality may voluntarily restrain their consumption of goods and services that generate a...

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Are Consumers Poorly Informed About Fuel Economy? Evidence from Two Experiments

Allcott, Hunt - 2017

It is often asserted that consumers are poorly informed about and inattentive to fuel economy, causing them to buy low-fuel economy vehicles despite their own best interest. This paper presents evidence on this assertion through two experiments providing fuel economy information to new vehicle...

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How Consumers Respond to Environmental Certification and the Value of Energy Information

Houde, Sébastien - 2014

The ENERGY STAR certification is a voluntary labeling that favors the adoption of energy efficient products. In the US … refrigerator market, I develop a structural demand model and find that consumers respond to certification in different ways. Some …; others appear to pay attention to electricity costs, but not to the certification, and still others appear to be insensitive …

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Every Day is Earth Day : Evidence on the Long-Term Impact of Environmental Activism

Hungerman, Daniel M.; Moorthy, Vivek - 2022

We explore the importance of activism in the context of Earth Day. We use variation in weather to study the long-term effects of the original Earth Day on attitudes, environmental outcomes, and children's health. Unusually bad weather in a community on April 22, 1970, is associated 10 to 20...

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Valuing Ecosystem Services in General Equilibrium

Carbone, Jared C. - 2010

We explore the consequences of treating the multiple, non-market benefits associated with improvements in ecosystem health and the market economy from which damage to these ecosystems stems as an integrated system. We find that willingness to pay measures of use-based ecosystem services are...

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Envirodevonomics : A Research Agenda for a Young Field

Greenstone, Michael - 2013

Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...

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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels

Kaiser, William - 2014

In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...

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Does Market Experience Eliminate Market Anomalies? The Case of Exogenous Market Experience

List, John A. - 2011

A vibrant literature has emerged that suggests willingness to pay and willingness to accept measures of value are quite different for inexperienced consumers but that value differences erode with market experience. One potential shortcoming of this literature is that market experience is...

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Consumer Myopia in Vehicle Purchases : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Gillingham, Kenneth - 2019

A central question in the analysis of fuel-economy policy is whether consumers are myopic with regards to future fuel costs. We provide the first evidence on consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment. We examine the short-run equilibrium effects of an exogenous restatement of...

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Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks : Evidence from Mexico

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2015

To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to … as a “soda tax,” effective January 2014. I analyze data on taxed and untaxed products collected as part of Mexico …

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