Payment and Policy Consequentiality in Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation: Experimental Design Effects on Self-Reported Perceptions

Tobias Börger, Tenaw G. Abate, Margrethe Aanesen and Ewa Zawojska

Land Economics, 2021, vol. 97, issue 2, 407-424

Abstract: Although the contingent valuation literature emphasizes the importance of controlling for respondents’ consequentiality perceptions, this literature has rarely accounted for the difference between payment and policy consequentiality. We examine the influence of a randomly assigned tax amount on consequentiality self-reports and their potential endogeneity using data from a single dichotomous choice survey about reducing marine plastic pollution in Norway. Results show that consequentiality perceptions are a function of the tax amount, with payment consequentiality decreasing and policy consequentiality increasing with higher tax amounts. We discuss the challenge of finding valid instruments to address the potential endogeneity of consequentiality perceptions.

JEL-codes: Q51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
Note: DOI: 10.3368/le.97.2.407
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