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- Carlsson, Fredrik, 1968, et al.
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Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership
- 2022
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- For global problems like climate change, strong international agreements are difficult to achieve. Alternative solutions might therefore be necessary. In this paper, we study the support for climate leadership in seven European countries. Climate leadership means that an individual country takes the lead by decreasing its carbon emissions above its level of commitment in the current EU agreement and with the intention of inspiring other countries to do likewise. Overall, we find that at realistic cost levels, a majority of people oppose their country taking the lead, and most do not expect that taking the lead will result in other countries following suit. The lack of support is caused by expectations that such leadership will result in other countries behaving as free riders. We do, however, find evidence of preferences for conditional leadership: People are more positive about their country taking the lead if assured that other countries will follow. These preferences are stronger among those who identify as leftwing. Moreover, citizens in smaller countries are more pessimistic that other countries would follow their country’s lead and more sensitive to the response of other EU countries.
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- Carlsson, Fredrik, 1968, et al.
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The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
- 2020
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- We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate mitigation. Ten years ago, Sweden had a larger fraction of believers in anthropogenic climate change and a higher WTP for mitigation, but today the national averages are more similar. Although we find convergence in public support for climate policy across countries, there is considerable divergence in climate attitudes and preferences within countries, particularly the United States. Political polarization explains part of this divergence.
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- Löfgren, Åsa, 1972, et al.
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Sustainability preferences and financial decision-making among mutual fund investors
- 2022
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- In our representative sample of Swedish mutual fund investors, those who are sustainability motivated perceive investment choices more difficult than other investors. Of those who are sustainability motivated, 38 percent have never actively invested in a sustainable fund. Preferences for sustainable investment as well as the attentiveness of the investment decisions correlate with certain investor attributes. Young people and women value sustainability higher than others and women make their investment choice less attentively than men. Investors making the choice inattentively are less influenced by financial information. Nudges, such as sustainability labels, may be a more effective way of communicating with this group.
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- Sundemo, Mattias, 1982, et al.
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Isolating nature from nurture: Does exposure to business and economics education make students more selfinterested?
- 2022
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- Does exposure to business and economics education make students more self-interested and less interested in a career that would contribute to a better society? Using a panel dataset of more than 900 individuals from a European Business School we are able to isolate the role of self-selection from possible education or nurture-effects on prosocial (altruistic) values and attitudes associated with exposure to business and economics education. The school in this study, as well as many other contemporary business schools in this part of the world, have for many years integrated issues of sustainability, responsibility and ethics into their business and economics education. Still, after all these efforts, our results indicate that business and economics students become significantly less prosocial during their program studies, and importantly, we find no such effect among students from other disciplines. Further, we find that prosocial attitudes significantly correlate with prosocial behavior (measured by donation in an incentivized charity dictator game). We also provide evidence for highly heterogeneous effects with regards to majors (accounting, management, finance, economics etc.). Finally, we find notable and significant gender differences that largely persist throughout university education.
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