Green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements?
Households’ consumption patterns and behaviors have profound influence on natural resources and environmental quality. This paper explores whether environmental behaviors and willingness to pay (WTP) in the household domains transport, energy consumption and water consumption are substitutes or comp...
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doaj-77e4dda5987d4a4685f7b4f82e3c74692020-11-25T03:24:49ZengLLC "CPC "Business Perspectives"Environmental Economics1998-60411998-605X2019-06-01101234710.21511/ee.10(1).2019.0312133Green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements?Sandra Schusser0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6204-6384Goran Bostedt1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6540-743XPh.D. candidate, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesAssociate Professor, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Department of Forest Economics, SLU/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Umea School of Business and Economics, Umea UniversityHouseholds’ consumption patterns and behaviors have profound influence on natural resources and environmental quality. This paper explores whether environmental behaviors and willingness to pay (WTP) in the household domains transport, energy consumption and water consumption are substitutes or complements. Using a cross-country data set from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey on Environmental Attitudes and Behavior from 2008, a random-effects (ordered) probit model is used to answer this question for the following countries: Australia, Canada, France, Mexico, Italy, and South Korea. It is found that in most countries, actual environmental behaviors are substitutes, while WTP for environmental public goods in different domains is mostly complementary. Grounding in these results, policies aiming to encourage overall environmentally friendly lifestyles should therefore be all-encompassing of several public domains, instead of individual ones, to avoid the risk of negative spillovers.https://businessperspectives.org/images/pdf/applications/publishing/templates/article/assets/12133/EE_2019_01_Schusser.pdfwillingness to paypro-environmental behaviorprivate provision of public goodsimpure public goodsrenewable energy |
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Green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements? |
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Green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements? |
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Green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements? |
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Green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements? |
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Green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements? |
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green behavioral (in)consistencies: are pro-environmental behaviors in different domains substitutes or complements? |
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Environmental Economics |
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1998-6041 1998-605X |
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Households’ consumption patterns and behaviors have profound influence on natural resources and environmental quality. This paper explores whether environmental behaviors and willingness to pay (WTP) in the household domains transport, energy consumption and water consumption are substitutes or complements. Using a cross-country data set from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Survey on Environmental Attitudes and Behavior from 2008, a random-effects (ordered) probit model is used to answer this question for the following countries: Australia, Canada, France, Mexico, Italy, and South Korea. It is found that in most countries, actual environmental behaviors are substitutes, while WTP for environmental public goods in different domains is mostly complementary. Grounding in these results, policies aiming to encourage overall environmentally friendly lifestyles should therefore be all-encompassing of several public domains, instead of individual ones, to avoid the risk of negative spillovers. |
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willingness to pay pro-environmental behavior private provision of public goods impure public goods renewable energy |
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