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Nudging climate change mitigation: A laboratory experiment with inter-generational public goods
To avoid the dangerous consequences of climate change, humans need to overcome two intertwined conflicts. First, they must deal with an intra-generational conflict that emerges from the allocation of costs of climate change mitigation among different actors of the current generation. Second, they face an inter-generational conflict that stems from the higher costs for long-term mitigation measures, particularly helping future generations, compared to the short-term actions aimed at adapting to the immediate effects of climate change, benefiting mostly the current generation. We devise a novel game to study this multi-level conflict and investigate individuals' behavior in a lab experiment. We find that, although individuals reach sufficient cooperation levels to avoid adverse consequences for their own generation, they contribute more to cheaper short-term than to costlier long-term measures, to the detriment of future generations. Simple "nudge" interventions, however, may alter this pattern considerably. We find that changing the default contribution level to the inter-generational welfare optimum increases long-term contributions. Moreover, providing individuals with the possibility to commit themselves to inter-generational solidarity leads to an even stronger increase in long-term contributions. Nevertheless, the results also suggest that nudges alone may not be enough to induce inter-generationally optimal contributions.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Games ; ISSN: 2073-4336 ; Volume: 11 ; Year: 2020 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 1-20 ; Basel: MDPI
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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climate change
experiment
inter-generational
nudging
social dilemma
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Böhm, Robert
Gürerk, Özgür
Lauer, Thomas
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Veröffentlichung
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MDPI
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Basel
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.3390/g11040042
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Böhm, Robert
- Gürerk, Özgür
- Lauer, Thomas
- MDPI
Entstanden
- 2020
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