DDRIG in DRMS: Social preference and voluntary donation to climate mitigation.

气候变化是一个全球性的威胁，重要的是，这意味着它更广泛地威胁着个人和人类。根据IPCC的最新报告，我们必须立即迅速达到净零碳排放，以避免许多最坏的影响。因此，决策者必须确定如何激励公众追求碳减排。该项目研究的价值，被称为支付意愿（WTP），放在气候变化缓解的实验设置。特别是，这个项目感兴趣的是，如果有关气候变化的信息被呈现给人们（框架），人们对收入分配的偏好（社会偏好），影响他们的支付意愿。此外，该项目还研究了个人的社会偏好是否会改变框架的影响。这个实验中使用的框架反映了气候变化的真实的世界特征之一。发达国家人均污染最多，但发展中国家受气候变化影响最大。因此，一些参与者将收到直接强调气候变化对他们自己的风险的框架，而其他参与者将收到强调对发展中国家人民的风险的语言。据推测，前者的框架可能是更积极的自我关注的个人，而个人谁是更强烈地关注他人的福利将更积极的后一个框架。 这项试验的结果将成为文献的一部分，为积极和正在进行的政策讨论提供信息。例如，这个项目的研究结果对试图举行全民公决的政策制定者很有用。参与深入对话等外展活动的环保活动家也可能会发现这些结果有助于定制他们的信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Climate change is a worldwide threat, importantly this means it threatens both the individual and humanity more broadly. According to the most recent IPCC report, we have to immediately and rapidly reach net zero carbon emissions to avoid many of the worst effects. Determining how to motivate the public to pursue carbon mitigation will therefore be essential for policy makers. This project studies the value, known as willingness to pay (WTP), placed on climate change mitigation in an experimental setting. In particular this project is interested if the way information about climate change is presented to people (framing), and people’s preferences on the distribution of income (social preferences), impact their WTP. Further, this project also studies if an individual’s social preferences changes the impact of framing. The framing used in this experiment mirrors one of the real world characteristics of climate change. Developed nations pollute the most per capita, but developing nations are the most exposed to climate change. Thus, some participants will receive framing emphasizing the risks from climate change to themselves directly, whereas others will receive language emphasizing the risk to those in developing nations. It is hypothesized that the former framing may be more motivating to self-regarding individuals, whereas individuals who are more strongly concerned with other’s welfare will be more motivated by the latter framing. Results from this experiment will become part of the literature seeking to inform active and ongoing policy discussions. For example, this project’s findings are be of use to policy makers trying to word a referendum. Environmental activists engaged in outreach such as deep conversation may also find the results helpful in tailoring their messages.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.