When do people exploit moral wiggle room? An experimental analysis of information avoidance in a market setup
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Keywords
Information avoidance; Experiment; Carbon offsets; Moral wiggle room; Ethical consumption;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- D89 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Other
- Q50 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - General
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