SURVEY on... Cap and trade programs at the state level

Abstract

One instance of the online survey involving choice experiments concerning cap-and-trade programs. We employ many more images than we have used in earlier surveys. The choice tasks in this survey concern cap-and-trade programs that will reduce carbon emissions by a specified percent at some number of dollars per month in household costs. However, the programs are differentiated in terms of their distributtional consequences, including of the number of carbon-industry jobs that will be lost and the number of green-industry jobs that will be gained. These programs either include or exclude additional regulations on other conventional pollutants, to prevent firms that buy permits from increasing their emissions of local pollutants, in addition to their greater carbon emissions. Across programs, a different share of the permits will be auctioned (as opposed to being given away for free), and the carbon permit auction revenue will be used in different proportions to fund new equipment, support communities or workers transitioning to a lower-carbon economy, or to replace existing tax revenue.

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Survey instrument example
online survey carbonpricing