Data on donation behavior towards the conservation of migratory species
Anna Lou Abatayo,
Mathias Vogdrup-Schmidt,
Jason F. Shogren,
Niels Strange,
Bo Jellesmark Thorsen
Affiliations
Anna Lou Abatayo
Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Wageningen University and Research, Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen 6706KN, Netherlands; Corresponding author.
Mathias Vogdrup-Schmidt
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Universitetsparken 15, Bld. 3, 2nd floor, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Jason F. Shogren
Department of Economics, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071, USA
Niels Strange
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Universitetsparken 15, Bld. 3, 2nd floor, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Bo Jellesmark Thorsen
Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark; Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Universitetsparken 15, Bld. 3, 2nd floor, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
The data contains 716 individual decisions and responses from a lab-in-field experiment and an exit questionnaire that were conducted in Denmark, Spain, and Ghana. Individuals were initially asked to perform a small effort task (i.e., correctly counting the number of 1’s and 0’s in a page) to earn money and subsequently asked how much of their earnings they were willing to donate to BirdLife International to conserve Danish, Spanish, and Ghanaian habitats of the Montagu's Harrier, a migratory bird. The data is useful in understanding individual willingness-to-pay to conserve the habitats of the Montagu's Harrier along its flyway and could aid policymakers in having a clearer and more complete idea of support for international conservation. Among other things, the data can be used to look at the effect of individual socio-demographic characteristics and environmental and donation preferences on actual donation behavior.
