We estimate a model to explain climate policy preferences as a function of the domestic and international distribution of policy costs as well as the climate change impacts that each respondent believes will occur under a policy of business-as-usual. WTP for climate change mitigation is greater when the domestic incidence of mitigation costs is borne mostly through higher energy taxes, and when costs are understood to be shared internationally with other groups of countries, rather than being borne mostly by a country group including the US.
One instance of the mail survey involving choice experiments concerning climate change programs. This mail survey was fielded weekly, for 50 weeks, with 200 surveys sent out each week, because we wished to have the option to explore whether current events (e.g., weather) had any distinguishable effects on climate policy preferences. Each survey contained just a single choice task between a specified climate change prevention program and business as usual.