Yuval Feldman and Oren Perez (Bar-Ilan University – Faculty of Law and Bar-Ilan University – Faculty of Law) have posted Motivating Environmental Action in a Pluralistic Regulatory Environment: An Experimental Study of Framing, Crowding Out, and Institutional Effects in the Context of Recycling Policies on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
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In designing a recycling policy, the regulator has to choose between multiple instruments. Our study seeks to address the linkage between the choice of regulatory instruments and institutional frameworks, people’s intrinsic environmental motivation and various attitudinal measures. We examined the behavioral repercussions of the primary instruments used in recycling regulation, using an experimental survey on a representative sample of the Israeli population (n= 1800 participants). Our findings suggest that the design of recycling policies should be sensitive to the framing effects of varied regulatory instruments and to the interplay between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on the desirability and efficacy of the law. These findings are particularly important in terms of policy design when there is broad heterogeneity in levels of intrinsic motivation among the target population.