Speaker
Yuanwei Xu
(Ruhr University Bochum)
Description
This paper aims to understand how to explain carbon taxes and how to design redistribution policies to win support for carbon taxes using a representative survey on 3,460 Chinese citizens. Each participant is randomly assigned to two sets of information: (i) what the carbon tax is and how it works; and (ii) personalized information on gains and losses under a specific carbon tax redistribution policy. We find that Chinese citizens are most convinced by the “polluters pay” element of carbon taxes. Moreover, providing detailed information on gains and losses usually does not increase the acceptance, except that receiving information on gains would increase the acceptance under the uniform redistribution scheme.
Primary author
Yuanwei Xu
(Ruhr University Bochum)
Co-authors
Andreas Loeschel
Christoph Feldhaus
