Carbon Emission Task Documentation

About

• The Carbon Emission Task (CET) is a new paradigm grounded in experimental economics to assess actual pro-environmental behavior.

• The CET can be used in laboratory, online, or classroom studies.

• Participants face repeated tradeoffs between financial bonus opportunities paired with real carbon emissions and foregoing such opportunities while staying carbon-neutral.

• Measuring pro-environmental behavior using the Carbon Emission Task (Berger & Wyss, 2021) was published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Support

For help, please contact noel.strahm@iop.unibe.ch

Contents:

• Set up the CET in oTree
  • Step 1: Download the CET
  • Step 2: Add the CET to your oTree Project
  • Step 3: Change session configurations in settings.py
  • Step 4: Install required packages
  • Step 5: Start the CET
• CET Data (csv file)
• Car Distance Calculator
• Constants
  • Random Payoff
  • Random Saved Emission
  • Bot Criteria
  • Num Rounds
• Subsession Class
  • creating_session()
  • Paying Round
  • Sum saved Emission
  • All Players Finished
  • Helpful prints
  • Send Payment Mail
• Player Class
  • Fields
  • Functions
• Pages
  • Instruction Page
  • Practice Pages
  • Experiment Page
  • Results Page
• Templates
  • Block Styles
  • Block Content
• Export