Data on donation behavior towards the conservation of migratory species

Anna Lou Abatayo; Mathias Vogdrup-Schmidt; Jason F Shogren; Niels Strange; Bo Jellesmark Thorsen

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109130

Data on donation behavior towards the conservation of migratory species

Data Brief. 2023 Apr 7:48:109130. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109130. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Authors

Anna Lou Abatayo¹, Mathias Vogdrup-Schmidt^{2

3}, Jason F Shogren⁴, Niels Strange^{2

3}, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Wageningen University and Research, Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen 6706KN, Netherlands.
² Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Universitetsparken 15, Bld. 3, 2nd floor, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁴ Department of Economics, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071, USA.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Dictator game; Economic experiments; Information; International collaboration.