Education and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Time Use Survey

Akar, Betul; Akyol, Pelin; Ökten, Çağla

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“…Education can affect pro-environmental action by positively impacting on labor market outcomes and earnings (Card 1999, Heckman et al 2006, Oreopoulos and Salvanes 2011, Cole et al 2014, improving the affordability of pro-environmental behavior and increasing individual willingness to pay for environmental quality (Hökby andSöderqvist 2003, Jacobsen andHanley 2009). On the other hand, by increasing earnings, education also raises the opportunity cost of time, plausibly disincentivizing time-consuming proenvironmental action (Akar et al 2019). By affecting time preferences and increasing patience (Becker and Mulligan 1997, Oreopoulos and Salvanes 2011, Perez-Arce 2017, Jung et al 2019, education can raise the value of distant benefits of pro-environmental behavior, while by impacting on generalized trust (Yang 2019), it contributes to improving the public's confidence in scientific evidence and the effectiveness of environmental policy (Volland 2017Tam and Chan 2018, Fairbrother et al 2019, Hao et al 2020.…”

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Does higher education affect pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from household waste recycling in Greece

Kountouris

Remoundou

2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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We examine the effect of higher education attainment on pro-environmental behavior focusing on household waste recycling. To address the endogeneity of higher education attainment, we exploit a set of reforms that increased opportunities for university studies in Greece, affecting cohorts graduating from highschool in year 2000. We leverage the exogenous variation introduced by the school enrollment age cutoff and estimate the local average treatment effect of higher education employing a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, comparing educational attainment, and recycling behavior between households that were just, and just not exposed to the reforms. We find little evidence that higher education increases the probability of recycling, and no evidence that the share of household waste recycled responds to higher educational attainment. Our results suggest that human capital accumulation alone may not deliver green behavior returns.

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Does higher education affect pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from household waste recycling in Greece

Kountouris

Remoundou

2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…In the past three decades, many countries put in place education reforms that increased higher education attainment rates (Bratti et al, 2008; Blanden and Machin (2004); Kyui (2016)). In Turkey, there have been two education reforms that increased both secondary and tertiary education levels, first that extended compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in 1997 (Akar et al 2019; Aydemir and Kirdar, 2017; Kirdar et al 2016) and second increased available slots in tertiary education by 60 per cent during 2006–2009 (Caner et al 2019), thereby increasing youth education levels. Hence, higher labour market expectations due to increased human capital investments may have resulted in wage and job quality expectations that exceed current job offers.…”

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The effect of parental job loss on youth transition to employment in Turkey

Karaoglan

Ökten

2022

Labour

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This article analyses the impact of household head's involuntary job loss on young person's (15–24 years old) likelihood to transition from non‐employment to employment. We construct twelve two‐year pseudo‐panels based on previous year's labour market outcomes using Turkish Household Labor Force Surveys (THLFS) from 2005 to 2016 and then pool the twelve pseudo‐panels for analysis. We examine youth's labour market responses according to education levels and gender. We show that a female with at least a high school degree is about 8.7 percentage points more likely to transition to from non‐employment to employment in the group where the head experienced an unexpected job loss than a female in the group where the head remained employed. Furthermore, for females, the probability of transitioning to employment increases by education level. For males, although we find positive and statistically significant effect of head's job loss on the transition probability, we do not find any differences according to education level.

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The impact of education on time spent in religious activities: evidence from Turkey

Akar

Ökten

2021

Applied Economics Letters

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This paper investigates the impact of increased education, due to an exogenous education reform, on time spent in religious activities by utilizing the Turkish Time Use Survey data. The education reform significantly rises individuals' years of schooling. We also document that for women, increased education has a negative causal impact on the allocation of time to religious activities. However, there are no significant effects of education on men's time spent in religious activities. As a result, we suggest that education plays an important role in altering individuals' religious behaviour through its effects on preferences.

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Education and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Time Use Survey

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Does higher education affect pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from household waste recycling in Greece

Does higher education affect pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from household waste recycling in Greece

The effect of parental job loss on youth transition to employment in Turkey

The impact of education on time spent in religious activities: evidence from Turkey

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