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Research update
18 March 2024
Paper showing that additional schooling leads people to behave and vote in more climate-friendly ways

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A paper by Noam Angrist and colleagues in the Review of Economics and Statistics (MIT) estimates how far additional years of schooling influence individual behaviour and voting preferences around climate change. The authors show that an extra year of education substantially increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviours, and policy preferences.

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