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Environmental and pro-social norms: evidence on littering

Torgler, Benno; Frey, Bruno S; Wilson, Clevo (2009). Environmental and pro-social norms: evidence on littering. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 9(1):1-39.

Abstract

The paper investigates the relationship between pro-social norms and its implications for improved environmental outcomes. This is an area, which has been neglected in the environmental economics literature. We provide empirical evidence to demonstrate a robust link between perceived environmental cooperation (reduced public littering) and increased voluntary environmental morale. For this purpose we use European Values Survey (EVS) data for 30 European countries. We also demonstrate that Western European countries are more sensitive to perceived environmental cooperation than the public in Eastern Europe. Interestingly, the results also demonstrate that environmental morale is strongly correlated with several socio-economic and environmental variables. Several robustness tests are conducted to check the validity of
the results.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:03 Faculty of Economics > Department of Economics
Dewey Decimal Classification:330 Economics
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Economics and Econometrics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Scope:Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)
Language:English
Date:2009
Deposited On:25 Jan 2010 11:47
Last Modified:17 Apr 2025 08:00
Publisher:Berkeley Electronic Press
ISSN:1935-1682
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.2202/1935-1682.1929
Other Identification Number:merlin-id:1630
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