TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Voorintholt, Lieke
AU  - Berg, Gerard J. van den
AU  - Soetevent, Adriaan R.
        TI  - For the Future of Our Grandchildren: Grandparenthood and Climate Change Concerns
        PY  - 2025/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17795
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17795
        AB  - Concerns about offspring’s life quality are often cited as a motivation for caring about climate change. This paper investigates the hypothesized causal effect of grandparenthood on climate change worries, using panel data surveys among British families. Specifically, we study whether becoming a grandparent increases these worries. We employ two different study designs to deal with endogeneity of grandparenthood. The assumptions required to identify causal effects differ and are non-nested. However, results based on the two approaches are remarkably congruent. We find no empirical support for a relationship between grandparental status and concerns about climate change.
        KW  - offspring
KW  - intergenerational altruism
KW  - global warming
KW  - anticipation
KW  - future climate
        ER  -