Primary Outcomes (explanation)
We will ask questions about perceptions on climate change and various climate policies; views, ranking, and voting preferences of major policy areas including climate change; and views, stated preference, and revealed preference for engaging in various climate actions. We will construct various indexes that summarize support for climate change, support for government intervention on climate issues, beliefs and knowledge about climate change, and so on. In the text analysis, we will construst measures of “topics” and “sentiment” using text analysis tools.
We will also tell respondents that they have been automatically enrolled in a lottery to win a given amount of dollars. Before being informed if they have won, each respondent will decide how much to donate the winnings (if at all) to a particular environmental organization. We use the amount respondents wish to donate as a (real) measure of support for climate change. We will also ask respondents if they are willing to sign a pro-climate petition. Lastly, if partnership with a solar company is successfully established, we will measure real-world changes in respondents’ willingness to learn about and/or adopt solar technologies.