Climate change: US public opinion

PJ Egan, M Mullin - Annual Review of Political Science, 2017 - annualreviews.org
A review of research findings and polling data about Americans' attitudes on climate change
reveals a lack of meaningful long-term change in mass opinion. Instead, the structure of …

Climate policy conflict in the US states: a critical review and way forward

JA Basseches, R Bromley-Trujillo, MT Boykoff… - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
Many US states have taken significant action on climate change in recent years,
demonstrating their commitment despite federal policy gridlock and rollbacks. Yet, there is …

Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half

G Sparkman, N Geiger, EU Weber - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Pluralistic ignorance—a shared misperception of how others think or behave—poses a
challenge to collective action on problems like climate change. Using a representative …

Disaster on the horizon: The price effect of sea level rise

A Bernstein, MT Gustafson, R Lewis - Journal of financial economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Homes exposed to sea level rise (SLR) sell for approximately 7% less than observably
equivalent unexposed properties equidistant from the beach. This discount has grown over …

Does climate change affect real estate prices? Only if you believe in it

M Baldauf, L Garlappi, C Yannelis - The Review of Financial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies whether house prices reflect belief differences about climate change. We
show that in an equilibrium model of housing choice in which agents derive utility from …

Framing, Context, and Methods (Chapter 1)

D Chen, M Rojas, BH Samset, K Cobb… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Going underwater? Flood risk belief heterogeneity and coastal home price dynamics

LA Bakkensen, L Barrage - The Review of Financial Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
How do climate risk beliefs affect coastal housing markets? This paper provides theoretical
and empirical evidence. First, we build a dynamic housing market model and show that …

Temperature shocks and establishment sales

JM Addoum, DT Ng… - The Review of Financial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Combining granular daily data on temperatures across the continental United States with
detailed establishment data from 1990 to 2015, we study the causal impact of temperature …

Climate change in the American mind: Data, tools, and trends

MT Ballew, A Leiserowitz, C Roser-Renouf… - … : Science and Policy …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change is a major threat to ecosystems and people around the world. 1 Risk
analysts, including the US Department of Defense, rank climate change as one of the most …

How do investors value ESG?

M Baker, ML Egan, SK Sarkar - 2022 - nber.org
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives have risen to near the top of the
agenda for corporate executives and boards, driven in large part by their perceptions of …