Gone with the Dirty Air? Closures of Polluting Factories and Change in Voters' Perceptions of the Environment-Employment Tradeoff

• In Event: The Environment and Green Politics

Brief Overview

If the regions lose polluting industries or gain clean energy industries, do the residents change the attitude toward climate change? I applied difference-in-differences analysis to the panel survey data, using original datasets of factory closures.

Author

• Makoto Fukumoto, University of California-Berkeley