Study on Free Riding Behavior in Rural Environmental Pollution Complaints

Abstract

With the environmental pollution increasingly severe, the government has strengthened the intensity of environmental pollution treatment. But to the government, the rural environment monitoring is difficult to supervise and plan, so the rural residents supervise the environmental pollution situation around them, and stop pollution behavior become another important force to control pollution. Because of the environment belongs to public goods, generally there is “free riding idea” in the rural residents, when they plagued by environment pollution. And then form a Free Riding Problem, all the rural residents suffering from environmental pollution, but there are no one to complain the pollution. This paper will study the free riding problem in the environmental pollution complaints through the experimental economics research method, analyze the influencing factors how to influence free riding behavior, according to the various influencing factors to design free riding experiments. Using descriptive statistical analysis method and empirical analysis method to analyze the experimental data. According to the experimental results, this paper summarizes the factor that can effectively reduce the free riding behavior when rural residents complain the pollution, and gives policy recommendations to relative departments.