FABRE Adrien

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Affiliations
  • 2018 - 2020
    Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • 2017 - 2020
    Ecole d'économie de Paris
  • 2017 - 2019
    Paris Jourdan sciences économiques
  • 2015 - 2016
    Université de Bordeaux
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2013
  • Yellow Vests, Carbon Tax Aversion, and Biased Beliefs.

    Thomas DOUENNE, Adrien FABRE
    2020
    This paper helps to understand how beliefs form and determine attitudes towards policies. Using a new survey and official households’ survey data, we investigate the case of carbon taxation in France in the context of the Yellow Vests movement that started against it. We find that French people would largely reject a Tax & Dividend policy, i.e. a carbon tax whose revenues are redistributed uniformly to each adult. However, they also overestimate the negative impact of the scheme on their purchasing power, wrongly think it is regressive, and do not perceive it as environmentally effective. Using information about the scheme as instruments to robustly identify causal effects, our econometric analysis shows that if we could rectify these three biased beliefs, it would suffice to generate majority approval. Yet, only a small minority can be convinced by new information and revisions are biased towards pessimism. Finally, if overly pessimistic beliefs cause tax rejection, they also result from it through motivated reasoning, which manifests what we define as “tax aversion”.
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