𝐄𝐟𝐃-𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫

𝕮𝖊𝖑𝖊𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖞 𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖔𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖒𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖕𝖗𝖔-𝖊𝖓𝖛𝖎𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝖇𝖊𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖔𝖗

Time: 11:00 - 12:00, Wednesday 09 September 2020
Venue: Campus H, 1A Hoang Dieu street, Phu Nhuan district, Ho Chi Minh city

Presenter: Ho Quoc Thong, EfD-Vietnam research fellow

Abstract: We conduct a natural field experiment on the effect of celebrity endorsement of an information campaign aiming to induce pro-environmental behavior in the context of single-use plastics consumption in Vietnam. We find that an information campaign does not have a significant effect on behavior unless it is coupled with a celebrity endorsement. The effect of celebrity endorsement is sizeable. Subjects in the treatment with celerity endorsement pick around 25 percent fewer plastic items in the shop at the end of the experiment compared with subjects in the control group. The effects in treatments where a pledge is added are even larger, but we do not find a statistically significant effect of pledges themselves.

Key-words: pro-environmental behavior, celebrity endorsement, information

JEL-codes: C93, D9, Q5

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