Environmental and Pro-Social Norms: Evidence from 30 Countries

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The paper investigates the relationship between pro-social norms and its implications for improved environmental outcomes, an area which has been neglected in the environmental economics literature. We provide empirical evidence, demonstrating a strong link between perceived environmental cooperation (reduced public littering) and increased voluntary environmental morale, using European Values Survey (EVS) data for 30 Western and Eastern European countries. The robust results suggest that environmental morale and perceived environmental cooperation, as well as identifying the factors that strengthen these relationships, potentially bring about better environmental outcomes.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2007-10

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Tax Evasion and Avoidance ; State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects ; Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
• Subject: environmental preferences ; environmental morale ; conditional cooperation ; pro-social behavior

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Torgler, Benno ; Frey, Bruno S. ; Wilson, Clevo
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
• (where): Basel
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/214384
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