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Individual Carbon Footprint Reduction: Evidence from Pro-environmental Users of a Carbon Calculator
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- Enlund, Jakob (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)
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- Andersson, David, 1979 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology,Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
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- Carlsson, Fredrik, 1968 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik,Department of Economics,University of Gothenburg,University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Springer, 2023
- 2023
- English.
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In: Environmental & Resource Economics. - : Springer. - 0924-6460 .- 1573-1502. ; 86, s. 433-467
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Abstract
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- We provide the first estimates of how pro-environmental consumers reduce their total carbon footprint using a carbon calculator that covers all financial transactions. We use data from Swedish users of a carbon calculator that includes weekly estimates of users' consumption-based carbon-equivalent emissions based on detailed financial statements, official registers, and self-reported lifestyle factors. The calculator is designed to induce behavioral change and gives users detailed information about their footprint. By using a robust difference-in-differences analysis with staggered adoption of the calculator, we estimate that users decrease their carbon footprint by around 10% in the first few weeks, but over the next few weeks, the reduction fades. Further analysis suggests that the carbon footprint reduction is driven by a combination of a shift from high- to low-emitting consumption categories and a temporary decrease in overall spending, and not by changes in any specific consumption category.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
- TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER -- Samhällsbyggnadsteknik -- Husbyggnad (hsv//swe)
- ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY -- Civil Engineering -- Building Technologies (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Pro-environmental behavior
- Carbon footprint
- Consumer behavior
- social norms
- public-goods
- energy
- behavior
- consumption
- commitment
- strategies
- Business & Economics
- Environmental Sciences & Ecology
- Pro-environmental behavior
- Economics
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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