| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w17539 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 17539 |
| Policy-Instrument Choice and Benefit Estimates for Climate-Change Policy in the United States | |
| Matthew J. Kotchen; Kevin J. Boyle; Anthony A. Leiserowitz | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-10-27 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper provides the first willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates in support of a national climate-change policy that are comparable with the costs of actual legislative efforts in the U.S. Congress. Based on a survey of 2,034 American adults, we find that households are, on average, willing to pay between $79 and $89 per year in support of reducing domestic greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions 17 percent by 2020. Even very conservative estimates yield an average WTP at or above $60 per year. Taking advantage of randomized treatments within the survey valuation question, we find that mean WTP does not vary substantially among the policy instruments of a cap-and-trade program, a carbon tax, or a GHG regulation. But there are differences in the sociodemographic characteristics of those willing to pay across policy instruments. Greater education always increases WTP. Older individuals have a lower WTP for a carbon tax and a GHG regulation, while greater household income increases WTP for these same two policy instruments. Republicans, along with those indicating no political party affiliation, have a significantly lower WTP regardless of the policy instrument. But many of these differences are no longer evident after controlling for respondent opinions about whether global warming is actually happening. |
| 主题 | Environmental and Resource Economics ; Energy ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17539 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575213 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Matthew J. Kotchen,Kevin J. Boyle,Anthony A. Leiserowitz. Policy-Instrument Choice and Benefit Estimates for Climate-Change Policy in the United States. 2011. |
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| w17539.pdf（79KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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