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Bose, Neha; Hills, Thomas; Sgroi, Daniel - 2020

Though many in the general public are concerned about climate change, most are unaware that agriculture and food production accounts for about one quarter of aggregate green house emissions and therefore, diet change is one of the most effective ways that individuals can reduce their climate...

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Climate change and individual behavior

Bernard, René; Tzamourani, Panagiota; Weber, Michael - 2022

This paper studies the causal effect of providing information about climate changeon individuals' willingness to pay to offset carbon emissions in a randomizedcontrol trial. Receiving truthful information about ways to reduce CO2 emis-sions increases individuals' willingness to pay for CO2...

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Do social norms trump rational choice in voluntary climate change mitigation? Multi-country evidence of social tipping points

Welsch, Heinz - 2021

change mitigation responds negatively to larger contributions by others whereas social norm theory maintains that one's own … perceived to engage in mitigation, individuals' willingness to engage in mitigation themselves is lower the more other … actual percentage of others perceived to engage in mitigation is lower than the estimated threshold (30 to 56 percent) in a …

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The intention-behavior gap in climate change adaptation

Kesternich, Martin; Osberghaus, Daniel; Botzen, W. J. Wouter - 2022

Most empirical studies on private climate change adaptation rely on self-reported intentions which often fail to translate into real actions. Consequently, this strand of literature can only insufficiently account for the intention behavior gap (IBG) in climate change adaptation, which...

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Temperature and Low-Stakes Cognitive Performance

Zhang, Xin; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2023

This paper offers one of the first evidence in a developing country context that transitory exposure to high temperatures may disrupt low-stakes cognitive activities across a range of age cohorts. By matching eight years of repeated cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally...

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A Real Effort vs. Standard Public Goods Experiment: Overall More All-or-Nothing, Lower Average Contributions and Men Become More Selfish in the Effort-Loss Frame

Schütze, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp C.; Wichardt, … - 2023

Many environment related public goods require investment of time or effort rather than simply money. Yet, most experimental studies on public good games focus on a distribution of money. In the present paper, we report results from an experiment (N=181) comparing an effort based public goods...

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Misperceived social norms and willingness to act against climate change

Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Chopra, Felix; Falk, Armin - 2024

We document the individual willingness to act against climate change and study the role of social norms in a large sample of US adults. Individual beliefs about social norms positively predict pro-climate donations, comparable in strength to universal moral values and economic preferences such...

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Pigou Pushes Preferences: Decarbonisation and Endogenous Values

Mattauch, Linus; Hepburn, Cameron; Stern, Nicholas - 2018

Avoiding unmanageable climate change implies that global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced rapidly. A significant body of literature shows that policy instruments such as carbon prices can make an important contribution to this goal. In contrast, changes in preferences or values are...

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Climate change, economic growth, and health

Ikefuji, Masako; Magnus, Jan R.; Sakamoto, Hiroaki - 2010

This paper studies the interplay between climate, health, and the economy in a stylized world with four heterogeneous regions, labeled ‘West’ (cold and rich), ‘China’ (cold and poor), ‘India’ (warm and poor), and ‘Africa’ (warm and very poor). We introduce health impacts into a...

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Carbon prices for the next thousand years

Gerlagh, Reyer; Liski, Matti - 2012

Climate is a persistent asset, bar none: changes in climate-related stocks have consequences spanning over centuries or possibly millennia to the future. To reconcile the discounting of such far-distant impacts and realism of the shorter-term decisions, we consider hyperbolic time-preferences in...

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