Moral Suasion and the Private Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
| العنوان: | Moral Suasion and the Private Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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| المؤلفون: | Björn Bos, Jasper N. Meya, Martin F. Quaas, Moritz A. Drupp |
| المصدر: | Environmental & Resource Economics Environmental and Resource Economics |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Netherlands, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Public good contributions, Economics and Econometrics, Opportunity cost, 020209 energy, Moral appeal, Appeal, 02 engineering and technology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Collective action, Article, C93, Political science, 0502 economics and business, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 050207 economics, health care economics and organizations, Law and economics, I18, Social distance, 05 social sciences, COVID-19, Public good, Deontological ethics, Q58, Coronavirus, D62, Consequentialism, Moral suasion, H41, D64, Externality |
| الوصف: | We study how moral suasion that appeals to two major ethical theories, Consequentialism and Deontology, affects individual intentions to contribute to a public good. We use the COVID-19 pandemic as an exemplary case where there is a large gap between private and social costs and where moral suasion has been widely used as a policy instrument. Based on a survey experiment with a representative sample of around 3500 Germans at the beginning of the pandemic, we study how moral appeals affect contributions with low and high opportunity costs, hand washing and social distancing, to reduce the infection externality as well as the support for governmental regulation. We find that Deontological moral suasion, appealing to individual moral duty, is effective in increasing planned social distancing and hand-washing, while a Consequentialist appeal only increases planned hand-washing. Both appeals increase support for governmental regulation. Exploring heterogeneous treatment effects reveals that younger respondents are more susceptible to Deontological appeals. Our results highlight the potential of moral appeals to induce intended private contributions to a public good or the reduction of externalities, which can help to overcome collective action problems for a range of environmental issues. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1573-1502 0924-6460 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::3577262ea896643fa7b6e11c7e7b4baa http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC7430132 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....3577262ea896643fa7b6e11c7e7b4baa |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15731502 09246460 |
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