Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/61044
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3852
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In the UK, the largest proportion of household energy use is for space heating. Popular media make claims of a green hypocrisy: groups which have the strongest attitude towards the environment have the highest emissions. This study examines whether environmental attitudes and behaviours are associated with space heating energy use using data from the British Household Panel Survey. Results find that environmentally friendly attitudes generally do not lead to lower heating expenditures though environmentally friendly behaviours are associated with lower heating expenditure. Also, the effect of these attitudes and behaviours do not change as income increase.
Subjects: 
green hypocrisy
heating expenditures
environmental attitudes
BHPS
JEL: 
Q40
Q50
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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