Table 1 Survey questions and variable definitions regarding moral opposition towards trade.
From: On the opposition to market institutions on moral grounds
Question: To what degree do you think it is morally acceptable or unacceptable to trade these goods/services for money? | Ordinal variables Coded 1 to 5: 1 morally acceptable, …, 5 morally unacceptable | Binary variables Coded 0 or 1: 1 if morally unacceptable (i.e. if ordinal variable = 5) |
|---|---|---|
Human body parts (kidneys, etc.) | opp_body | oppose_body |
Sexual services | opp_sex | oppose_sex |
Food from countries where a large proportion of the population suffers from hunger and malnutrition | opp_hunger | oppose_hunger |
Emission permissions for countries (for instance CO2-permits) | opp_cntrCO2 | oppose_cntrCO2 |
Emission permissions for firms (for instance CO2-permits) | opp_firmCO2 | oppose_firmCO2 |
Goods produced in poor countries by people with very low income | opp_poor | oppose_poor |
To use surrogate mothers (a woman who becomes pregnant for the purpose of carrying the fetus to term for another person) to have children | opp_surrogate | oppose_surrogate |
