%0 Report
        %A Bhattacharya, Shubhro
%A Constantino, Sara
%A Mishra, Nirajana
%A Prakash, Nishith
%A Sabarwal, Shwetlena
%A Samaddar, Dighbijoy
%A Sherif, Raisa
        %T Intergenerational Spillovers of Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
        %D 2026
        %8 2026 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 18809
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18809
        %X We study intergenerational spillovers of environmental education using a randomized field experiment with 1,446 child–parent pairs in Patna, India, assigned to child-only, parent-only, joint, or control arms. Treating either children or parents raises the likelihood that the untreated household member chooses a delayed recycled certificate over an immediate standard one by 25 percentage points—spillovers on this incentivized behavior run symmetrically in both directions. Spillovers on beliefs and attitudes are asymmetric, however: children shift parents' views on climate change, but little spillover runs from parents to children on other measures. Joint participation does not outperform targeting children alone once child-to-parent spillovers are accounted for, suggesting that targeting children is a more scalable, cost-effective way to promote sustainable household behavior.
        %K environmental education
%K intra-household spillovers
%K intergenerational transmission
%K pro-environmental behavior
%K climate risk perceptions
%K factorial randomized design
%K India