Climate Change, Population Ageing and Public Spending: Evidence on Individual Preferences

Andor, Mark; Schmidt, Christoph Μ.; Sommer, Stephan

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“…The young are more socially liberal than their elders and European citizens have become more socially liberal over time, placing a higher priority on 'postmaterial' concerns than in the past. Comparative work has found that cohort effects appear to be the dominant driver of change, with substantial period effects too as all cohorts have liberalized over time (Andor, Schmidt, and Sommer 2018;Inglehart 2008;Norris and Inglehart 2019). Evidence from Canada, the USA and the UK shows similar patterns for individual issue areas including homosexuality and marriage equality, gender equality, marijuana legalisation, authoritarian values, the death penalty, and racial equality (Andersen and Fetner 2008;Baunach 2011;Cotter, Hermsen, and Vanneman 2011;Danigelis, Hardy, and Cutler 2007;Grasso et al 2017;Peterson, Smith, and Hibbing 2020;Scott, Alwin, and Braun 1996;Tilley 2005;Twenge, Carter, and Campbell 2015).…”

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ls Ideological Polarisation by Age Group Growing in Europe?

O’Grady¹

2019

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This paper asks how strong the evidence is for a large and growing age cleavage in European politics, using new estimates of the ideological positions of different age groups in 27 European countries across four issue domains from 1981-2016, together with age-period-cohort analysis and an examination of voting patterns by age. The young turn out to be much more socially liberal than the old in most countries, but also more opposed to taxation and government spending. Age divides are generally no larger now than they were thirty years ago, are explained primarily by cohort replacement effects, and are likely to fall in the near future. Nonetheless, age divides in voting are large and in some places actually increasing. A likely explanation is that, although age-based ideological differences are not new, parties have increasingly emerged and polarised along the dimensions where the young and old have long differed from each other.

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ls Ideological Polarisation by Age Group Growing in Europe?

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2019

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“…Interesting results are also reported in Frondel et al (2017) and Andor et al (2018), based on survey data collected by the German institute forsa Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung und statistische Analysen. The survey counts more than 6,000 respondents, representative of the population of German speaking households aged 14 and above.…”

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“…This is consistent with other results in the literature (D'Amato et al, 2019), which show that the understanding of global warming might help to deepen perception of climate change. Similar considerations hold for the effects of extreme weather episodes (Andor et al, 2018), in terms of the financial loss caused (). Financial loss enters the econometric model also interacted with  ( ) and provides a dampening mechanism for the effects of income, by flattening the slope of the environmental awareness equations in the awareness-income space.…”

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“…In particular, Frondel et al (2017) focus on the association of public perception of climate change with heat waves, storms and floods, and their financial and physical costs. Andor et al (2018) consider the perceived importance of taking action against climate change. By means of ordered logit regression estimation, they find that personal experience with adverse natural events, particularly personal losses, lead to higher environmental awareness, and that older people are not likely to personally engage in fighting climate change or supporting policy measures aiming at climate change mitigation.…”

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“…This is associated with the appreciation of the human, monetary and physical impact of climate change, i.e. the damages and fatalities caused by extreme weather episodes, as well as direct experience of heatwaves, heavy rainfalls or floods, droughts, sandstorms, windstorms, or avalanches (Andor et al, 2018). Perceptions of perceived changes in temperature (D'Amato et al, 2019) and related use of heating and cooling facilities over the year also belong to this category.…”

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Climate Change Awareness: Empirical Evidence for the European Union

Baiardi

Morana

2020

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In this paper we assess public attitudes on climate change in Europe over the last decade. Using aggregate figures from the Special Eurobarometer surveys on Climate Change, we find that climate change attitudes have evolved according to the "S-shaped" information dissemination model, conditional to various socioeconomic and climatological factors. In particular, we find that environmental awareness is directly related to per capita income, social trust, secondary education, the physical distress associated with hot weather and loss caused by extreme weather episodes. It is also inversely related to greenhouse gas emissions and tertiary education. Moreover, consistent with our epidemics-like narrative, we find a negative impact for Donald Trump's denial campaigns and a larger positive effect for Greta Thunberg's environmental activism. In terms of policy implications, this paper calls on the EU to take up leadership in the fight against climate change and declare a climate emergency. It also calls on teachers to introduce their students to climate change, science journals to allow wide access to any climate change article they publish and public institutions to protect climate change evidence from politicization. This paper finally calls for the close coordination of monetary and fiscal policies, to allow the green bonds market to reach rapidly the size required for the implementation of effective climate change mitigation policies.

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Kostenloser ÖPNV: Akzeptanz in der Bevölkerung und mögliche Auswirkungen auf das Mobilitätsverhalten

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ZusammenfassungDer PKW-Verkehr dominiert auch heute noch das Verkehrsaufkommen in Deutschland. Ein häufig diskutierter Vorschlag, um dies zu ändern, lautet, den Öffentlichen Personennahverkehr (ÖPNV) kostenlos anzubieten. Auf Basis einer Erhebung aus dem Jahr 2018, bei der knapp 7000 Haushaltsvorstände des forsa-Haushalts-Panels Antworten zu ihrem Mobilitätsverhalten sowie zu ihrer Einstellung gegenüber vieldiskutierten Verkehrsmaßnahmen liefern, untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag die allgemeine Zustimmung zur kostenlosen Nutzung des ÖPNV sowie die möglichen Auswirkungen dieser Maßnahme auf das Mobilitätsverhalten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine starke Befürwortung der Maßnahme: Rund 72 % der Antwortenden stimmten für die Einführung eines kostenlosen ÖPNVs. Eine mehrheitliche Zustimmung findet sich in jeder gesellschaftlichen Gruppe, gleich ob männlich oder weiblich, jung oder alt, arm oder reich, sowie in allen politischen Lagern. Nach Einführung eines kostenlosen ÖPNV in Deutschland würden die Befragten die Anzahl ihrer Fahrten mit dem ÖPNV nach eigenen Angaben durchschnittlich um ca. 230 % steigern. Wenngleich es sich um rein hypothetische Antworten handelt und die Ergebnisse daher mit einer gewissen Vorsicht betrachtet werden sollten, deuten diese auf einen relativ starken potenziellen Anstieg der ÖPNV-Nutzung hin. Abschließend diskutieren wir, warum es trotzdem nicht sinnvoll erscheint, den ÖPNV kostenlos anzubieten und welche alternativen Politiken erfolgsversprechender erscheinen.

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Climate Change, Population Ageing and Public Spending: Evidence on Individual Preferences

Cited by 15 publications

References 27 publications

ls Ideological Polarisation by Age Group Growing in Europe?

ls Ideological Polarisation by Age Group Growing in Europe?

Climate Change Awareness: Empirical Evidence for the European Union

Kostenloser ÖPNV: Akzeptanz in der Bevölkerung und mögliche Auswirkungen auf das Mobilitätsverhalten

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