This paper summarizes the results of two experiments designed to evaluate the applicability of incentive compatible mechanisms such as the pivot mechanism to determine the public's preferences for environmental public goods. The first experiment employs a variant of the pivot mechanism to...

The market for voluntary carbon offsets has grown steadily in the last decade, yet it remains a very small niche. Most emissions from business travel are still not offset. This paper exploits a unique dataset examining the decision to purchase carbon offsets at two academic conferences in...

I study how the distribution of environmental goods and income affect the economic valuation of local public goods. I find that how environmental inequality affects societal willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental local public goods is determined by their substitutability as well as by how...