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Clean up your own mess: an experimental study of moral responsibility and efficiency
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Abstract Although market-based environmental policy instruments feature prominently in economic theory and are widely employed, they often meet with public resistance. We argue that such resistance may be driven by a feeling of moral responsibility where citizens prefer to tackle environmental problems thems... view more
Although market-based environmental policy instruments feature prominently in economic theory and are widely employed, they often meet with public resistance. We argue that such resistance may be driven by a feeling of moral responsibility where citizens prefer to tackle environmental problems themselves, rather than delegating the task to others by means of a market mechanism. Using a laboratory experiment that isolates moral responsibility from alternative explanations, we show that moral responsibility induces participants to incur a sizable cost on themselves as well as on other participants. We discuss the implications of this finding for the design and implementation of environmental policies.... view less
Keywords
responsibility; market mechanism; morality; climate change; environmental policy; laboratory experiment
Classification
Ecology, Environment
Free Keywords
C90; H23; Q53; Q54; Q58
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
26 p.
Series
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und Entscheidung, Abteilung Verhalten auf Märkten, SP II 2016-215
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149869
Status
Published Version
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