Dakshina G. De Silva|Rachel A.J. Pownall
Going green: does it depend on education, gender or income?
Lancaster University|Tilburg University|Maastricht University
abstractsustainable development entails meeting present needs without compromising ability future generations meet needs requires us treat economic social environmental aspects integrated way little known nature individual preferences towards tradeoffs involved effort first time study individual preferences towards environment social wellbeing financial wellbeing using survey 1400 households netherlands using nonparametric parametric matching methods find gender education important factors sustainability rather income levels moreover results indicate educated females put greatest value going green whilst socially mindedkeywords sustainabilityfinancial wellbeingheterogenous preferencesjel classification g10 i31 acknowledgementswe would like thank ronald peeters reyer gerlach andres vargas ian walker aart de zeeuw royal economic society annual conference 2012 participants helpful commentsnotes1 see stevens citation2010 insightful overview2 bandwidths variables chosen using standard silvermans rule thumb biweight kernels estimating results3 graphs provided upon request4 worth noting prefer reduce current standard living order maintain environment future generations prefer reducing greenhouse gases financial wellbeing similar context case one expect see person indicates willing reduce current standard living order maintain environment future generations indicate prefer reducing greenhouse gases financial wellbeing5 imbens citation2000 lechner citation2001 extend method propensity score matching multiple mutually exclusive programmes froelich citation2004 discusses different impact evaluation methods including based conditional independent assumption similar context also see lechner citation2002a b6 formal proof see rosenbaum rubin citation1983 imbens citation20007 detailed discussion implement matching techniques given becker ichino citation2002