Beirut Economics Research Seminar Series-Dr. Nagham Sayour
AKSOB 16th floor, Conference Room 1617, LAU Beirut campus
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Title: Information Framing and Willingness to Pay for Climate Policy: Evidence from a Cross-National Survey Experiment
Speaker: Dr. Nagham Sayour
Affiliation: Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Time: 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Location: AKSOB 16th floor, Conference Room 1617, LAU Beirut campus
Online via Webex
About the talk:
Abstract:
We investigate the impact of various climate message framings on environmental willingness to pay (WTP) across two countries, the United States and the Netherlands, chosen for their differing economic, cultural and environmental contexts. Based on theories of environmental communication and message framing, we conduct a randomized survey experiment (N = 1,511) that exposes participants to five informational conditions: no information, general climate information, specific climate health impact, behavioral impact and a combination of health and behavioral impact. After receiving the messages, participants report their WTP for climate policy.
On average, we find no significant treatment effects in either country. However, a heterogeneous analysis by environmental knowledge level shows that information treatments significantly affect WTP among participants with moderate environmental knowledge in the Netherlands, but not in the United States. These findings suggest that the effectiveness of climate communication strategies depends not only on message framing, but also on audience characteristics.
About the speaker:
Nagham Sayour is an associate professor of economics and assistant chair of business transformation at Zayed Universityin the United Arab Emirates. She holds a PhD in economics from McGill University in Canada. Dr. Sayour has taught economics courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at several universities, including McGill University and the Lebanese American University.
Her research focuses on empirical microeconomics, with particular interest in labor economics, family economics, impact evaluation and environmental economics. Her work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Health Economics, The Energy Journal, Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Defence and Peace Economics and the Canadian Journal of Economics.