Natural disasters and preferences for the environment: Evidence from the impressionable years

Chiara Falco and Raphael Corbi

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 222, issue C

Abstract: Can preferences for the environment be shaped? In line with the theories of social psychology, we show that natural disasters experienced during early adulthood induce pro-environmental attitudes. We support our findings by exploiting yearly natural disaster variation both within the US and across a sample of 102 countries whose citizens experience disasters at different points in time.

Keywords: Beliefs formation; Natural disasters; Environmental policy; Impressionable years (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 P18 Q54 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110946

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