Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/319225 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 11857
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
Stringent environmental policies often lack public support. But after policies are enacted, do individual preferences about them change? Using surveys covering 38 countries around the world, we study the effect of exposure to environmental policies on policy preferences. Exploiting within-country-year, across birth-cohort variation, we find that individuals exposed to more stringent environmental policies during early adulthood are more supportive of environmental policies later on in life. This relationship suggests that a society's environmental policy attitudes evolve endogenously, with implications for forecasting the path of these economic measures, as well as for how to evaluate their normative appropriateness.
Subjects: 
endogenous preferences
environmental policy
environmental preferences
experience
formative age
policy support.
JEL: 
D72
D83
H23
H31
Q58
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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