Arbeitspapier
Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual beliefs about social norms, economic preferences such as patience and altruism, as well as universal moral values positively predict climate preferences. Moreover, we document systematic misperceptions of prevalent social norms. Respondents vastly underestimate the prevalence of climate-friendly behaviors and norms among their fellow citizens. Providing respondents with correct information causally raises individual willingness to fight climate change as well as individual support for climate policies. The effects are strongest for individuals who are skeptical about the existence and threat of global warming.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14518
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Valuation of Environmental Effects
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Thema
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climate change
climate behavior
climate policies
social norms
economic preferences
moral values
beliefs
survey experiments
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Andre, Peter
Boneva, Teodora
Chopra, Felix
Falk, Armin
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2021
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Andre, Peter
- Boneva, Teodora
- Chopra, Felix
- Falk, Armin
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2021
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