{"id":2013,"date":"2015-12-01T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexpfaff.com\/?post_type=research-paper&#038;p=2013"},"modified":"2020-07-07T23:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:25:49","slug":"effects-of-exclusion-from-a-conservation-policy-negative-behavioral-spillovers-from-targeted-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2015\/12\/01\/effects-of-exclusion-from-a-conservation-policy-negative-behavioral-spillovers-from-targeted-incentives\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"authors\">Francisco Alpizar, Anna Norden, Alexander Pfaff, Juan Robalino<\/div>\n<div class=\"published\">Environmental and Resource Economics DOI 10.1007\/s10640-015-9981-2<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/04\/AlpizarEtAl-ERE2015-ExclusionEffect.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2016\/06\/pdf-icon-50x50-1.png\" alt=\"PDF link icon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When designing schemes such as conditional cash transfers or payments for ecosystem services, the choice of whom to select and whom to exclude is critical. We incentivize and measure actual contributions to an environmental public good to ascertain whether being excluded from a rebate can affect contributions and, if so, whether the rationale for exclusion in\ufb02uences such effects. Treatments, i.e., three rules that determine who is selected and excluded, are randomly assigned. Two of the rules base exclusion on subjects\u2019 initial contributions. The third is based upon location and the rationales are always explained. The rule that targets the rebate to low initial contributors, who have more potential to raise contributions, is the only rule that raised contributions by those selected. Yet by design, that same rule excludes the subjects who contributed the most initially. They respond by reducing their contributions even though their income and prices are unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Alpizar, Anna Norden, Alexander Pfaff, Juan Robalino Environmental and Resource Economics DOI 10.1007\/s10640-015-9981-2 &nbsp; When designing schemes such as conditional cash transfers or payments for ecosystem services, the choice of whom to select and whom to exclude is critical. We incentivize and measure actual contributions to an environmental public good to ascertain whether being excluded from a rebate can affect contributions and, if so, whether the rationale for exclusion in\ufb02uences such effects. Treatments, i.e., three rules that determine who is selected and excluded, are randomly assigned. Two of the rules base exclusion on subjects\u2019 initial contributions. The third is based upon location and the rationales are always explained. The rule that targets the rebate to low initial contributors, who have more potential to raise contributions, is the only rule that raised contributions by those selected. Yet by design, that same rule excludes the subjects who contributed the most initially. They respond by reducing their contributions even though their income and prices are unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,34,24,39],"tags":[90,98,107,129,151],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-costa-rica","category-actual-interventions","category-land-use-climate-mitigation","tag-exclusion","tag-forest","tag-incentives","tag-payments","tag-spillovers","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate - Alex Pfaff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.sanford.duke.edu\/alexpfaff\/2015\/12\/01\/effects-of-exclusion-from-a-conservation-policy-negative-behavioral-spillovers-from-targeted-incentives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unintended Effects of Targeting an Environmental Rebate - 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