Correcting Consumer Misperceptions about CO2 emissions
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Keywords
climate change; carbon emissions; information provision; consumer behavior;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C81 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2025-04-21 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2025-04-21 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2025-04-21 (Experimental Economics)
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