Do wealth levels affect the contribution to negative externalities?
Fecha
2020Versión
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Tipo
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa
Impacto
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10.1016/j.socec.2020.101579
Resumen
This paper experimentally explores the link between poverty and decisions that lead environmental degradation. In the experiment, individuals with different wealth levels play a game that describes environmental degradation as a contribution to an activity that generates a negative externality. The experimental data show that wealth levels not related to the environment (exogenous poverty) play n ...
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This paper experimentally explores the link between poverty and decisions that lead environmental degradation. In the experiment, individuals with different wealth levels play a game that describes environmental degradation as a contribution to an activity that generates a negative externality. The experimental data show that wealth levels not related to the environment (exogenous poverty) play no significant role in environmental decisions. However, the variation in wealth as a consequence of the contribution to environmental degradation (endogenous poverty) affects the behavior of individuals, that enter a spiral of poverty and environmental degradation. These results suggest the existence of a poverty-environment trap. [--]
Materias
Environmental degradation,
Exogenous poverty,
Endogenous poverty,
Negative externality,
Experiment
Editor
Elsevier
Publicado en
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2020, 87, 101579
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ekonomia Saila /
Universidad Pública de Navarra/Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE
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Entidades Financiadoras
Authors acknowledge the support of the Research Project ECO2015-65031-R and RED2018-102353-T (J.M. Benito-Ostolaza and N.Osés-Eraso), ECO2015-64330 (R. Ezcurra) (Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness) and PGC2018-093542-B-100 (R. Ezcurra).