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Complexity and Learning Effects in Voluntary Climate Action: Evidence from a Field Experiment

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  • Flörchinger, Daniela
  • Frondel, Manuel
  • Jarke-Neuert, Johannes
  • Perino, Grischa

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  • Flörchinger, Daniela & Frondel, Manuel & Jarke-Neuert, Johannes & Perino, Grischa, 2023. "Complexity and Learning Effects in Voluntary Climate Action: Evidence from a Field Experiment," VfS Annual Conference 2023 (Regensburg): Growth and the "sociale Frage" 277680, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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