Household Demand for Low Carbon Public Policies: Evidence from California / Matthew J. Holian, Matthew E. Kahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holian, Matthew J.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kahn, Matthew E.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19965.

NBER working paper series no. w19965

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Household Demand for Low Carbon Public Policies

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.

Summary:

In recent years, Californians have voted on two key pieces of low carbon regulation. The resulting voting patterns provide an opportunity to examine the demand for carbon mitigation efforts. Household voting patterns are found to mirror the voting patterns by the U.S Congress on national carbon legislation. Political liberals and more educated voters favor such regulations while suburbanites tend to oppose such initiatives. Survey responses at the individual level are shown to predict the spatial variation in actual voting patterns and hence convergent validity for results obtained with stated preference data on voting markets.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2014.