Ruprecht, Sophie (2023). Bridging the gap: the influence of information and education on acceptance of environmental taxes in Switzerland. Environmental research communication, 5(7) IOP Publishing 10.1088/2515-7620/ace29f
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Mitigating climate change remains a challenge for politics since efficient instruments such as environmental taxes are widely unpopular, with one determinant of objection being a lack of knowledge. Trying to increase environmental tax acceptance, previous studies found positive, negative as well as no effects of information treatments about environmental taxes. Contributing to this inconclusive research, I apply MOSAiCH 2020 panel data from Switzerland, calculating the causal effect of receiving an environmental tax information treatment on willingness to pay them. While the information effect was inconsistent for the full sample, information significantly increases green tax acceptance of less educated people. This subgroup effect hence offers an explanation for previous inconsistencies by showing that information does not affect everyone equally. Especially for less educated people, receiving information about the functioning of environmental taxes might therefore prove crucial for policymakers to gain majority support of environmental taxes necessary for their implementation.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Political Science |
UniBE Contributor: |
Ruprecht, Sophie Noémie |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science |
ISSN: |
2515-7620 |
Publisher: |
IOP Publishing |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Sophie Noémie Ruprecht |
Date Deposited: |
05 Jun 2024 15:02 |
Last Modified: |
05 Jun 2024 15:02 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1088/2515-7620/ace29f |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/197561 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/197561 |
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