A contingent valuation experiment about future particle accelerators at CERN.
Journal
PloS one
ISSN: 1932-6203
Titre abrégé: PLoS One
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101285081
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
16
10
2019
accepted:
18
02
2020
entrez:
12
3
2020
pubmed:
12
3
2020
medline:
19
6
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Investment in basic science is mainly supported by government funding, but little is known about citizens' willingness to pay for large-scale projects. A survey to a representative sample of French taxpayers, designed as a contingent valuation experiment about a future particle accelerator for CERN, reveals that citizens' willingness to pay is correlated with education, income, age, and-crucially-previous awareness, attitudes and interest in science. A (slim) majority of the participants would accept paying more in taxes for CERN. The estimated willingness to pay is higher than the current implicit per capita tax burden of French citizens. The experimental setting is novel and replicable for empirically assessing social attitudes towards science for other research infrastructures and countries.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32160265
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0229885
pii: PONE-D-19-28867
pmc: PMC7065825
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e0229885Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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