Attitudes towards road pricing and environmental taxation among US and UK students
By Junghwa Kim, Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Satoshi Fujii, Robert B. Noland. 2013
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This study investigates the determinants of public acceptability of road pricing and environmental taxation policies. The strength and direction of causal paths between psychological determinants and the acceptability of these policies are measured with survey data from students in New Jersey, USA and London. The estimated models show that a number of well-established psychological determinants provide an explanation for the acceptability of both policies and in both locations despite various differences in the policy scenarios. Scenario fairness appears to be the most important direct determinant of acceptability in both countries. We further verify the effect of “specific trust in government” on scenario fairness and other direct determinants that indicate the important role of government performance for achieving acceptability for these measures. Our findings further suggest that awareness of wider environmental issues, such as climate change, can lead to the support of specific sustainable transport policies, such as road pricing, which do not address climate change issues directly.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Transportation
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Citations in the corpus
- Individual Factors Influencing Acceptability for Environmental Policies: A Review and Research Agenda (2020, background): “For example, when trust in government is measured on a more general level, the effect is not as pronounced as when it is measured on a more specific level [21].”
- Perceived fairness and public acceptability of carbon pricing: a review of the literature (2019, methodology): “Our analytical framework, shown in Figure 1, is derived from findings of the fairness literature applied to carbon pricing and the related issue of environmental taxation (Kim et al., 2013; Dreyer et al., 2013).”