Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299457 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1554
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
Using an online multi-country video-vignette survey experiment, we measure bias against extractive industries and foreign firms in individuals perceptions and preferences related to industrial projects with potential economic benefits and environmental costs. Individuals face a hypothetical industrial investment project with a randomly assigned implementing firm, which varies in one or two dimensions: nationality (foreign or national), and industrial sector (extractive or generic). We elicit several incentivized and non-incentivized measures of acceptance of hypothetical investments. We find a precisely estimated null effect on willingness to pay to block the projects across experimental treatments: respondents express similar reactions to the same information independently of the firms origin or industrial sector.
Subjects: 
experimental economics
extractive industries
perceptions
willingness-to-pay
valuation
JEL: 
C90
D70
D90
L71
Q30
Q51
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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