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Identity and environmentalism: the influence of community characteristics

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Owen, Ann L.
Videras, Julio
Wu, Stephen

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This paper examines the influence of community characteristics on self-proclaimed environmentalism. We find that the composition of a community affects the likelihood that a person claims to be a strong environmentalist, even after controlling for individual characteristics and pro-environment behaviors. Individuals are more likely to definitely agree they are strong environmentalists if they live in areas where a large share of the population has post-graduate degrees and if they live in heavily Democratic areas or heavily Republican areas. These community effects occur only when individuals are predisposed to take on an environmental identity.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 12054.

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Keywords: identity; environmentalism; communicty effects;

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Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Social Norms and Social Capital; Social Networks Economic Anthropology

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