Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.

Pro-environmental behavior is the willingness to cooperate and contribute to environmental public goods. A good understanding of why individuals undertake pro-environmental actions is important in order to construct policies that are aligned with preferences and actual behavioral patterns, such as c...

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Autores principales:	Alpízar, Francisco, Gsottbauer, Elisabeth
Formato:	Artículo
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	2020
Materias:	RECICLAJE EXPERIMENTOS DE CAMPO BIENES PUBLICOS BASURA DOMESTICA DESARROLLO ECONOMICO RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS HOGARES REEMBOLSO MONTANTE COMPENSATORIO COSTA RICA
Acceso en línea:	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9536

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spelling	RepoCATIE95362022-02-17T19:09:56Z Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica. Alpízar, Francisco Gsottbauer, Elisabeth RECICLAJE EXPERIMENTOS DE CAMPO BIENES PUBLICOS BASURA DOMESTICA DESARROLLO ECONOMICO RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS HOGARES REEMBOLSO MONTANTE COMPENSATORIO COSTA RICA Pro-environmental behavior is the willingness to cooperate and contribute to environmental public goods. A good understanding of why individuals undertake pro-environmental actions is important in order to construct policies that are aligned with preferences and actual behavioral patterns, such as concern for social esteem and reputation. In this paper, we present the results of a framed field experiment that explores reputation formation as a driver in support of household recycling practices. We use a “shame” and a “pride” treatment to test which is more effective, if at all, in increasing recycling effort. We find that reputational concerns indeed play a role in shaping individual pro-environmental behavior. Surprisingly, subjects cooperate more if the situation is framed as avoiding shame (bad reputation) rather than as acquiring pride and gratitude (good reputation). The actual experiment is based on a real recycling program, with participants who are heads of urban households in Costa Rica. 2020-08-27T20:30:46Z 2020-08-27T20:30:46Z 2013-12 Artículo https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9536 en Environment for Development (December 2013) info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess application/pdf
institution	Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza
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language	Inglés
topic	RECICLAJE EXPERIMENTOS DE CAMPO BIENES PUBLICOS BASURA DOMESTICA DESARROLLO ECONOMICO RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS HOGARES REEMBOLSO MONTANTE COMPENSATORIO COSTA RICA
spellingShingle	RECICLAJE EXPERIMENTOS DE CAMPO BIENES PUBLICOS BASURA DOMESTICA DESARROLLO ECONOMICO RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS HOGARES REEMBOLSO MONTANTE COMPENSATORIO COSTA RICA Alpízar, Francisco Gsottbauer, Elisabeth Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.
description	Pro-environmental behavior is the willingness to cooperate and contribute to environmental public goods. A good understanding of why individuals undertake pro-environmental actions is important in order to construct policies that are aligned with preferences and actual behavioral patterns, such as concern for social esteem and reputation. In this paper, we present the results of a framed field experiment that explores reputation formation as a driver in support of household recycling practices. We use a “shame” and a “pride” treatment to test which is more effective, if at all, in increasing recycling effort. We find that reputational concerns indeed play a role in shaping individual pro-environmental behavior. Surprisingly, subjects cooperate more if the situation is framed as avoiding shame (bad reputation) rather than as acquiring pride and gratitude (good reputation). The actual experiment is based on a real recycling program, with participants who are heads of urban households in Costa Rica.
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author	Alpízar, Francisco Gsottbauer, Elisabeth
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title	Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.
title_short	Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.
title_full	Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.
title_fullStr	Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.
title_full_unstemmed	Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.
title_sort	reputation and household recycling practices: field experiments in costa rica.
publishDate	2020
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Reputation and Household Recycling Practices: Field Experiments in Costa Rica.

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