DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2020.112098
论文题名: U.S. public support for biofuels tax credits: Cost frames, local fuel prices, and the moderating influence of partisanship
作者: Goldfarb J.L. ; Kriner D.L.
刊名: Energy Policy
ISSN: 03014215
出版年: 2021
卷: 149 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Biofuel
; Consumer cost
; Gas prices
; Policy preferences
; Public opinion
; Tax credit
英文关键词: Biofuels
; Climate change
; Economic and social effects
; Gasoline
; Taxation
; Economic benefits
; Federal tax credit
; Gasoline prices
; Global energy demand
; Loss aversion
; Public support
; Spatial variations
; Treatment effects
; Costs
; biofuel
; consumption behavior
; cost analysis
; energy market
; energy policy
; price dynamics
; public sector
; tax reform
英文摘要: Researchers debate the viability of biofuels to address growing global energy demands and climate change. Understanding factors that maintain and build public support for government policies bolstering biofuels is critical. Using a nationally representative survey experiment, we examine the influence of competing cost arguments and spatial variation in ZIP-code level gasoline prices on Americans' support for federal tax credits to promote biofuels. We examine the influence of competing arguments about the cost implications of biofuels for consumers on support for federal tax credits, and whether such treatment effects are moderated by respondents’ political partisanship and by variation in local fuel prices. Consistent with research on loss aversion, arguments that biofuels could increase costs for consumers were more influential than arguments touting economic benefits. However, arguments that biofuels could eventually decrease fuel costs for consumers were more influential among subjects who experienced high local gasoline prices. Finally, we found evidence of a significant partisan divide in policy preferences, and evidence that partisanship moderates the influence both of competing cost frames and of local fuel prices on support for federal biofuels tax credits. Our results add important nuance to understanding of how economic calculations affect public support for policies to support biofuels. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/167787
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作者单位: Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, United States; Department of Government, Cornell University, United States
Recommended Citation:
Goldfarb J.L.,Kriner D.L.. U.S. public support for biofuels tax credits: Cost frames, local fuel prices, and the moderating influence of partisanship[J]. Energy Policy,2021-01-01,149