Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Willingness To Pay for Online Conspiracy Theory Content: Evidence from Japan

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Brief Overview

Partisanship and bias are the reasons people latch on to conspiracy theories. It is less clear whether all conspiracy believers are willing to act for the beliefs. We try to answer the question using the willingness to pay and a conjoint experiment.

Authors

• Masaru Nishikawa, Tsuda University

• John William Cheng, Tsuda University

• Nicholas A. R. Fraser, University of California, Berkley

• Ikuma Ogura, Georgetown University