Is fairness blind? The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules

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By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens' preferences for effort-sharing rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not rank the rule favoring their own country highest. Instead, they prefer the rule where all countries are allowed to emit an equal amount per person, a rule that favors Africa at the expense of high emitters such as the U.S. The least preferred rule is reduction proportional to historical emissions. Using two different treatments, one where the respondents were informed about the country names and one where the country names were replaced with anonymous labels A-D, we also test whether people's preferences for effort-sharing rules depend on the framing of the problem. We find that while the ranking of the principles is the same in both treatments, the strength of the preferences is significantly increased when the actual names of the countries are used.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2010,019

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Subject: climate change ; fairness ; framing ; ethics ; effort-sharing rules ; Klimaveränderung ; Klimaschutz ; Framing ; Gerechtigkeit ; Ethik ; Verhaltensökonomik ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Carlsson, Fredrik ; Kataria, Mitesh ; Lampi, Elina ; Löfgren, Åsa ; Sterner, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/32586
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET