D'Adda, Giovanna; Gao, Yu; Golman, Russell; Tavoni, Massimo - 2018
Environmental policies based on information provision are widespread, but have often proven ineffective. One possible … explanation for information’s low effectiveness is that people actively avoid it. We conduct an online field experiment on air … conditioning usage to test the theory of moral wiggle room, according to which people avoid information that would compel them to …