OECD Environment Working Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies on environmental issues prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal authors are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language English or French with a summary in the other if available.
- ISSN: 19970900 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/19970900
Greening Household Behaviour
Cross-domain Comparisons in Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours Using Spatial Effects
Discussions of the importance of public attitudes in shaping policy often lack clear evidence on causal relations between stated attitudes and observed behaviours. The 2011 OECD Survey of over 12,000 households allows analysing households’ environmental attitudes and behaviours in five different domains (electricity, food, transport, waste and water). Using econometric analysis, we investigate the relationship between stated environmental attitudes and indicators of civic engagement, such as voting in local elections, charity membership and membership in environmental organisations...
Keywords: civic engagement, household survey, GIS, environmental attitudes, behavioural economics
JEL:
D10: Microeconomics / Household Behavior and Family Economics / Household Behavior: General;
Q50: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Environmental Economics: General;
D12: Microeconomics / Household Behavior and Family Economics / Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis;
D64: Microeconomics / Welfare Economics / Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers;
H89: Public Economics / Miscellaneous Issues / Public Economics: Miscellaneous Issues: Other;
Q58: Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics / Environmental Economics / Environmental Economics: Government Policy;
C51: Mathematical and Quantitative Methods / Econometric Modeling / Model Construction and Estimation;
D11: Microeconomics / Household Behavior and Family Economics / Consumer Economics: Theory;
D71: Microeconomics / Analysis of Collective Decision-Making / Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
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