Experimental mindset for environmental challenges: the puzzling case of public good contributions
探讨如何用实验思维研究气候变化减缓问题，通过拼图模拟实时成本，发现降低承诺成本能增加贡献，但未达到公共品阈值，强调规模经济或可促进更大承诺。
Abstract The experimental mindset strips down and mimics social constructs in a setting we can use to understand how institutions create or destroy economic value. We explore how to use the mindset to consider climate change mitigation, in which more investment in climate mitigation by the collective, the less costly for each party. Using the lab to capture Conference of the Parties declining-cost environment with a jigsaw puzzle to mimic real-time costs, we find decreasing ‘cost’ of commitment increases contribution but not reaching the public good threshold. Highlighting the economies of scale might be an effective way to elicit greater commitment.