Browsing by Author "Qin, Ping"
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Chinese Local Residents’ Attitudes toward Shale Gas Exploitation: The Role of Energy Poverty, Environmental Awareness, and Benefit and Risk Perceptions
Yu, Chin-Hsien; Tan, Huimin; Qin, Ping; Chen, Xiaolan (2017-12)This study investigates Chinese local residents’ attitudes toward shale gas exploitation through an interview of 730 local residents in two counties of Sichuan Province (Weiyuan County and Gong County) and explores the ... -
Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; Sutter, Matthias (2009-04-20)We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses’ ... -
Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Carlsson, Fredrik; He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; Sutter, Matthias (2010-08)Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses’ relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on ... -
Households’ Risk Perceptions in Response to Shale Gas Exploitation: Evidence from China
Yu, Chin-Hsien; Huang, Shih-Kai; Qin, Ping; Chen, Xiaolan (2017-10)In 2014, China became the world’s third country to realize shale gas commercial development, following the United States and Canada. So far, there has been a lack of comprehensive discussion on risk perception related to ... -
It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix: a study of concern for relative standing in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Qin, Ping (2008-05-22)This paper examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We use a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and find that the ... -
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Qin, Ping; Chung, Susie; Sterner, Thomas (2010-05-17)Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ... -
Risk, Relative Standing and Property Rights: Rural Household Decision-Making in China
Qin, Ping (2009-01-21) -
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Qin, Ping; Sterner, Thomas; Yang, Xiaojun (2020-05)We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate ... -
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - A Multiple Country Test of an Oath Script
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Qin, Ping; Sterner, Thomas; Chung, Susie (2010-11)Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how they actually behave. In ...