It’s the End of the World as We Know It? Utility for Outcomes and the Structure of Opinion on Climate Change

• In Event: Experimental Examinations of Rationality and Behavior

Brief Overview

Using a decision-theoretic model and survey experiment to prime participants to think of climate change from a VNM utility perspective, we examine the relationship between estimated utility for climate change policies and stated policy preferences.

Authors

• Alexander George Theodoridis, University of California-Merced

• Stephanie Nail, Stanford University

• Graham Bullock, Davidson College