The Causal Effect of Income on Market Social Responsibility

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bartling, Bjorn; Valero, Vanessa; Weber, Roberto A.
• 署名单位: University of Zurich; IMT - Institut Mines-Telecom; Institut Mines-Telecom Business School
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaf064
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: fairness; games; INFORMATION; BEHAVIOR

摘要

We investigate the relationship between consumers' incomes and socially responsible consumption that mitigates negative externalities. We conduct laboratory and online market experiments in which firms and consumers can exchange products that differ in the degree to which they diminish negative external impacts at the expense of higher production costs. Our treatments exogenously vary consumers' incomes. Across all three experiments, higher income causes an increase in the quantity of socially responsible products purchased and at least slightly increases the share of such products as part of total consumption. However, increases in total consumption resulting from higher income can increase negative externalities.