Do parents leave a smaller carbon footprint?

Arbeitspapier

While becoming a parent is transformational as one focuses more on the future, the time constraints are more binding right now. Using a unique data set that allows us to compare CO2 emissions from Swedish two-adult households with and without children, we find becoming a Swedish parent causes a person to leave a larger carbon footprint—due to changes in transportation patterns and food consumption choices.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFRO Working Paper ; No. 2017/12

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Household Behavior: General ; Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: General‡ ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming
• Subject: Children ; parent ; CO2 emissions ; sustainable consumption ; time constraints ; food ; transportation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Nordström, Jonas ; Shogren, Jason F. ; Thunström, Linda
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Copenhagen, Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)
• (where): Copenhagen
• (when): 2017

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/204416
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET