| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24664 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24664 |
| Livestreaming Pollution: A New Form of Public Disclosure and a Catalyst for Citizen Engagement? | |
| Emiliano Huet-Vaughn; Nicholas Muller; Yen-Chia Hsu | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-06-04 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Most environmental policy assumes the form of standards and enforcement. Scarce public budgets motivate the use of disclosure laws. This study explores a new form of pollution disclosure: real-time visual evidence of emissions provided on a free, public website. The paper tests whether the disclosure of visual evidence of emissions affects the nature and frequency of phone calls to the local air quality regulator. First, we test whether the presence of the camera affects the frequency of calls to the local air quality regulator about the facility monitored by the camera. Second, we test the relationship between the camera being active and the number of complaints about facilities other than the plant recorded by the camera. Our empirical results suggest that the camera did not affect the frequency of calls to the regulator about the monitored facility. However, the count of complaints pertaining to another prominent industrial polluter in the area, steel manufacturing plants, is positively associated with the camera being active. We propose two behavioral reasons for this finding: the prior knowledge hypothesis and affect heuristics. This study argues that visual evidence is a feasible approach to environmental oversight even during periods with diminished regulatory capacity. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Behavioral Economics ; Environmental and Resource Economics ; Environment |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24664 |
| 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/582337 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Emiliano Huet-Vaughn,Nicholas Muller,Yen-Chia Hsu. Livestreaming Pollution: A New Form of Public Disclosure and a Catalyst for Citizen Engagement?. 2018. |
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| w24664.pdf（1769KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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