Online Climate Policy Survey

Valuing publicly sponsored research projects: Risks, scenario adjustments, and inattention

Our survey specifies explicit risks of (a) outright program failure and (b) program redundancy due to possible private sector substitutes. Our discounted expected utility model of choice accommodates both these objective risks and the possibility of subjective scenario adjustment or selective inattention by respondents. We then counterfactually simulate willingness-to-pay in the absence of these distortions.