Opposition to Carbon Taxes
- Category: Climate Change
- Repo: walice/Carbon-Cost-Exposure
- Project URL: Paper published in Climatic Change (2026)
- Data: Harvard Dataverse
- Presentation: Slides delivered at the American Political Science Association Conference
- Methods: Principal Components Analysis (PCA), linear regression, classification tree
- Technologies: R
- Op-ed: The Conversation
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Citizens often oppose carbon taxes even when the rebates leave them better off financially. Using a panel survey in five Canadian provinces, we find that partisanship and perceived costs predict opposition to carbon pricing better than objective costs do.
You can read more about my work on carbon pricing on my website: https://alicelepissier.com/projects/climate-change/#carbon-pricing.