TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bhattacharya, Shubhro
AU  - Constantino, Sara
AU  - Mishra, Nirajana
AU  - Prakash, Nishith
AU  - Sabarwal, Shwetlena
AU  - Samaddar, Dighbijoy
AU  - Sherif, Raisa
        TI  - Intergenerational Spillovers of Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
        PY  - 2026/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18809
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18809
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - environmental education
KW  - intra-household spillovers
KW  - intergenerational transmission
KW  - pro-environmental behavior
KW  - climate risk perceptions
KW  - factorial randomized design
KW  - India
        ER  -