Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/197686 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Discussion Paper No. 1012
Publisher: 
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka
Abstract: 
Designing efficient environmental policies requires knowledge about households' preference parameters for their intertemporal decisions. By conducting an original Internet-based survey using Japanese participants (n=2,906) and a follow-up survey (n=1,407), we examine how people evaluate pro-environmental policies depending on their individual attributes. The discount rates for environmental outcomes are estimated by using a discrete choice experiment. We show that participants' discount rates in environmental policy choices are on average negative and future-biased. Those who are more ambiguity-averse and patient for money concerns, and anticipate more rapid increases in future temperatures are more willing to incur present-day tax burdens to ensure future environmental improvements. These results are highly robust against alternative estimation models and stable when using the follow-up survey data obtained 21 months later.
Subjects: 
Time discounting
Ambiguity aversion
Environmental policy
Random utility model
Discrete choice analysis
JEL: 
D91
Q51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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