Do the rich have stronger willingness to pay for environmental protection? New evidence from a survey in China

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.12.033

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	Do the rich have stronger willingness to pay for environmental protection? New evidence from a survey in China
	Shao, Shuai; Tian, Zhihua; Fan, Meiting
刊名	WORLD DEVELOPMENT
	2018-05
卷号	105 页码:83-94
关键词	Household income Environmental pollution Willingness to pay Ordered Logit model Nighttime lights data China
ISSN号	0305-750X
DOI	10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.12.033
英文摘要	The majority of existing studies argue that rich people and the residents in high-income countries and regions have stronger willingness to pay (WIT) for environmental protection. Does such a rule hold true for China at the present stage? Previous studies pay little attention to this issue due to the lack of related data. Merging the micro data from the Chinese General Social Survey in 2010 (CGSS2010) with the macro data at the corresponding urban level of China, as well as two types of satellite monitoring data, this paper investigates the effect of income on residents' WTP for environmental protection at both macro and micro perspectives based on the ordered Logit model. The results show that the rich do have stronger WTP for environmental protection. However, with the increase in residents' income, the marginal WTP for environmental protection will decline, and a reversal occurs at the top income level. Therefore, the WTP does not always rise with the increase in income, and the middle-income class has the strongest WTP for environmental protection. Moreover, after controlling individual characteristics, residents' WTP for environmental protection more depends on environmental pollution degree rather than urban average income level measured by both GDP per capita and the nighttime lights data from satellite monitoring. The residents in more polluted cities have stronger WTP for environmental protection. Therefore, it is not reasonable to improve people's environmental preferences purely through economic development. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
WOS研究方向	Development Studies ; Business & Economics
语种	英语
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000428973300007
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/636]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Shao, Shuai
作者单位	Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Inst Finance & Econ Res, Sch Urban & Reg Sci, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shao, Shuai,Tian, Zhihua,Fan, Meiting. Do the rich have stronger willingness to pay for environmental protection? New evidence from a survey in China[J]. WORLD DEVELOPMENT,2018,105:83-94.
APA	Shao, Shuai,Tian, Zhihua,&Fan, Meiting.(2018).Do the rich have stronger willingness to pay for environmental protection? New evidence from a survey in China.WORLD DEVELOPMENT,105,83-94.
MLA	Shao, Shuai,et al."Do the rich have stronger willingness to pay for environmental protection? New evidence from a survey in China".WORLD DEVELOPMENT 105(2018):83-94.