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Title: Do Environmentalists Practice What They Preach? Environmental Ideology as a Determinant of Voting and Private Consumption Choice

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: In California, Green Party and Democratic Party communities vote in favor of ballotinitiatives that are pro-environment while Republican Party communities are less likely tovote in favor of such initiatives. Given that these ideology measures have predictivepower in political markets, do these same measures have predictive power in explainingprivate consumption differences? This paper uses several consumption data sets todocument that households who live in communities where Green Party voters are overrepresentedconsume fewer resources than observationally identical non-Greens.While Democrats vote green, their private consumption patterns are the same asRepublicans.

Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=687831

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Authors: Kahn, Matthew E.

Publisher: NBER

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