A choice experiment on fuel taxation and earmarking in Norway

Sælen, Håkon; Kallbekken, Steffen

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.024

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“…This descriptive evidence is in line with much of the literature, which nds that in general individuals tend to neglect the incentive eect of environmental taxation (Dresner et al 2006;Steg et al 2006; see also Kallbekken and Aasen 2010;Saelen and Kallbekken 2011). It also shows that people expect a larger eect on themselves than on the average population, but we cannot completely rule out strategic voting.…”

Section: Variables and Descriptive Statisticssupporting

confidence: 74%

Paying Enough Taxes Already? Testing the Acceptability of Carbon Taxes with Survey Data

Carattini

Baranzini

2014

SSRN Journal

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In spite of economist's claims, climate policy instruments such as carbon taxes are rarely implemented. This paper analyzes the drivers of carbon taxes acceptability in the semi-direct democratic context of Geneva, Switzerland. Based on a sample of more than 300 individuals, we assess the effect on acceptability of socioeconomic characteristics, environmental attitudes, social norms as well as individual's perceptions of carbon taxes advantages and disadvantages. We also show that policy design matters for acceptability, in particular earmarking for environmental purposes, and find evidence of an effect of labeling, "climate contribution" leading under some circumstances to larger acceptability than "carbon tax". We infer that proper policy design coupled with effective communication on the effects of carbon taxes may lead to a substantial improvement in acceptability.

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Section: Variables and Descriptive Statisticssupporting

confidence: 74%

Paying Enough Taxes Already? Testing the Acceptability of Carbon Taxes with Survey Data

Carattini

Baranzini

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…While the authors call for the use of larger samples to support their findings, they suggest that acceptable carbon tax designs are not a chimaera. Saelen and Kallbekken (2011) show, with a choice experiment, that the chances for carbon taxes to be acceptable are higher with earmarking for environmental revenues. With this type of recycling, the Norwegian population would agree to increase the current fuel tax rate by about 15%.…”

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confidence: 99%

Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Carattini

Baranzini

Thalmann

et al. 2017

Environ Resource Econ

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Turning the Paris Agreement's greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting. First, we analyze voting behavior in a large ballot on energy taxes, rejected in Switzerland in 2015 by more than 2 million people. Energy taxes were aimed at completely replacing the current value-added tax. We examine the determinants of voting and find that distributional and competitiveness concerns reduced the acceptability of energy taxes, along with the perception of ineffectiveness. Most people would have preferred tax revenues to be allocated for environmental purposes. Second, at the same time of the ballot, we tested the acceptability of alternative designs of a carbon tax with a choice experiment survey on a representative sample of the Swiss population. Survey respondents are informed about environmental, distributional and competitiveness effects of each carbon tax design. These impacts are estimated with a computable general equilibrium model. This original setting generates a series of novel results. Providing information on the expected environmental effectiveness of carbon taxes reduces the demand for environmental earmarking. Making distributional effects salient generates an important demand for progressive designs, e.g. social cushioning or recycling via lump-sum transfers. The case of lump-sum recycling is particularly striking: it is sufficient to show its desirable distributional properties to make it one of the most preferred designs, which corresponds to a completely novel result in the literature. We show that providing detailed information on the functioning of environmental taxes may contribute to close both the gap between acceptability ex ante and ex post and the gap between economists' prescriptions and the preferences of the general public.

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“…Studies show that, for example, contributions to taxes increase when these taxes are earmarked for specific purposes (e.g. Hundsdoerfer et al 2013, Sclen andKallbekken, 2011) and that child benefits are related to higher spending on child related products (e.g. Kooreman, 2000, Del Boca andFlinn, 1994).…”

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Do consumers pay more using debit cards than cash?

Runnemark

Hedman

Xiao

2015

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

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We conduct an incentivized experiment to test whether the willingness to pay is higher for debit cards compared to cash for three consumer products. Our findings support this conjecture also after controlling for cash availability, spending type, price familiarity and consumption habits of the products. The evidence thus suggests that different representations of money matters for consumer behavior.JEL classification: D03; D010; E42

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A choice experiment on fuel taxation and earmarking in Norway

Cited by 104 publications

References 45 publications

Paying Enough Taxes Already? Testing the Acceptability of Carbon Taxes with Survey Data

Paying Enough Taxes Already? Testing the Acceptability of Carbon Taxes with Survey Data

Green Taxes in a Post-Paris World: Are Millions of Nays Inevitable?

Do consumers pay more using debit cards than cash?

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