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creators_name: Chankrajang, T.
creators_name: Muttarak, R.
creators_id: 1959
creators_orcid: 0000-0003-0627-4451
title: Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand
ispublished: pub
divisions: prog_pop
keywords: Pro-environmental behaviours; Education; Instrumental variables; Thailand
abstract: We investigate whether there are green returns to education, where formal education encourages pro-environmental behaviours using nationally representative surveys on environmental issues in Thailand. To establish the causal relationship between education and green behaviours, we exploit the instrumental variables strategy using the supply of state primary schooling i.e. the corresponding number of teachers per 1000 children, which varies over time and across regions as the instrument, while controlling for regional, cohort and income effects. We find that more years of schooling lead to a greater probability of taking knowledge-based environmentally-friendly actions a great deal, but not cost-saving pro-environmental actions. In addition, the paper finds no significant impact of formal education on concern about global warming nor the willingness to pay for environmental tax.
date: 2017
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
id_number: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.09.015
creators_browse_id: 213
full_text_status: public
publication: Ecological Economics
volume: 131
pagerange: 434-448
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1873-6106
projects: Forecasting Societies Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change (FUTURESOC, FP7 230195)
coversheets_dirty: FALSE
fp7_project: yes
fp7_project_id: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/230195/Forecasting Societies Adaptive Capacities to Climate Change/FUTURESOC
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
access_rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
citation:   Chankrajang, T. & Muttarak, R. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/213.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-4451 <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-4451>  (2017).  Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand.   Ecological Economics 131 434-448. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.09.015 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.09.015>.       
document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13865/1/Chankrajang_Muttarak_Green%20Returns_unedited%20version.pdf