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Education and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours : a nonparametric regression discontinuity analysis of a major schooling reform in England and Wales
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Powdthavee, Nattavudh (2021) Education and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours : a nonparametric regression discontinuity analysis of a major schooling reform in England and Wales. Ecological Economics, 181 . 106931. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106931 ISSN 0921-8009.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106931
Abstract
There is a widespread belief that a lack of education contributes to public apathy to climate change. Yet, despite the global campaign to promote education as a tool to combat global warming, empirical evidence on the causal effect of education on climate literacy and pro-environmental behaviours remains scarce. Using the raising of the minimum school leaving age law in England from 15 to 16 years of age in September 1972 as a natural experiment, we show that remaining in school as a result of the reform causally reduces people's unwillingness to change their behaviours for the environment and their perception that climate change is too far in the future to worry. However, we find little evidence that more education improves the pro-environmental behaviours of those who were affected by the reform. This raises an important question of whether policies aimed at improving climate change awareness through education can effectively produce long-lasting changes in pro-environmental behaviours.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ecological Economics | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0921-8009 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | March 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 181 | ||||||||
| Article Number: | 106931 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106931 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 December 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 December 2021 | ||||||||
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