TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Andre, Peter
AU  - Boneva, Teodora
AU  - Chopra, Felix
AU  - Falk, Armin
        TI  - Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values
        PY  - 2021/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14518
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14518
        AB  - 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 beliefs about social norms, economic preferences such as patience and altruism, as well as universal moral values positively predict climate preferences. Moreover, we document systematic misperceptions of prevalent social norms.
Respondents vastly underestimate the prevalence of climate-friendly behaviors and norms among their fellow citizens. Providing respondents with correct information causally raises individual willingness to fight climate change as well as individual support for climate policies. The effects are strongest for individuals who are skeptical about the existence and threat of global warming.
        KW  - moral values
KW  - economic preferences
KW  - social norms
KW  - climate policies
KW  - climate behavior
KW  - climate change
KW  - beliefs
KW  - survey experiments
        ER  -