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Fighting climate change: the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand Chopra, Felix; … - 2021
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...
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The causal effect of education on climate literacy and pro-environmental behaviours : evidence from a nationwide natural experiment
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
There is a widespread belief that a lack of education is the primary cause of public apathy to climate change. Yet, despite the global campaign to promote education as a tool to combat global warming, empirical evidence on the causal effect of education on climate literacy and pro-environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210723
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Does emigration affect pro-environmental behaviour back home? : a long-term, local-level perspective
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2020
This study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on the seven successor states of former Yugoslavia, I explore the relationship between people's present-day pro-environmental action and the local-level intensity of a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178024
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Adverse welfare shocks and pro-environmental behaviour : evidence from the global economic crisis
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2017
This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people's pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. We hypothesise that the crisis has affected pro-environmental behaviours through tightening of budget constraints and relaxation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760108
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Digital and competing information sources : impact on environmental concern and prospects for cooperation
Udalov, Vladimir; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017
The environmental concern of people in industrialized and developing countries is analysed. Using the 2010-2014 wave of the World Value Survey (WVS), the main purpose of our analysis is to investigate the effect of different information sources on the affective, conative and behavioural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641398
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Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? : experimental evidence from Peru
Fuhrmann, Hanna; D'Exelle, Ben; López Vargas, Kristian; … - 2024
Tackling environmental pollution requires a permanent change in regular, repeated behavior of households. Bringing about change in such behavior may require interventions that are not limited to a single point in time, yet little evidence exists on how frequently we need to target households to...
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Competitiveness of entrepreneurs and salaried workers
Balafoutas, Loukas; Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Sutter, Matthias - 2021
We measure the willingness to compete of entrepreneurs and salaried workers in an experiment. We let participants … entrepreneurs are less competitive than salaried workers, but that in the public condition this ordering is reversed. Data from a … follow-up survey suggest that social image concerns of entrepreneurs and perceived norms can explain why entrepreneurs are …
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The origins and extent of entrepreneurial action-orientedness : an experimental study
Barirani, Ahmad; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2017
We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607388
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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system
Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....
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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2006
Hurst and Lusardi (2004) recently challenged the long-standing belief that liquidity constraints are important causal determinants of entry into self-employment. They demonstrate that the oft-cited positive relationship between entry rates and assets is actually unchanging as assets increase...
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