Should governments fund basic science? Evidence from a willingness-to-pay experiment in five universities

被引：5

作者：

Florio, Massimo ^{[1
]}

Giffoni, Francesco ^{[1
,2
]}

Catalano, Gelsomina ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Milan, Dept Econ Management & Quantitat Methods DEMM, Milan, Italy

[2] CSIL Ctr Ind Studies, Milan, Italy

来源：

JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC POLICY REFORM | 2020年 / 23卷 / 01期

关键词：

Research infrastructures; basic science; non-use value; willingness-to-pay; large hadron collider; CERN; particle physics; STUDENTS ATTITUDES; TECHNOLOGY; VALUATION; CONSERVATION; PREFERENCES; CONTEXT; SCALE;

D O I：

10.1080/17487870.2018.1547638

中图分类号：

F0 [经济学]; F1 [世界各国经济概况、经济史、经济地理]; C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

0201 ; 020105 ; 03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

Tax-payers are usually the ultimate funders of large-scale research infrastructures (RIs), but the expected discoveries of such projects often do not have any known use-value. By interviewing 1,022 undergraduates, we study the drivers of preferences for paying for basic research, which are still little known. We focus on the LHC at CERN, where the Higgs boson was discovered. Income, awareness, and positive attitudes towards science drive a positive willingness-to-pay for science. Students in social sciences and the humanities are willing to contribute to scientific curricula at least as much as their peers. Findings offer support to government funding of basic research as a public good.

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