Air Pollution and Climate Change Attitudes: Exploring the Impact of Wildfires and Policy Support in the United States

• In Event: Air, Water, and Sanitation: The Politics of Collective Environmental Goods

Brief Overview

We develop a Bayesian updating model explaining the process through which voters form preferences in response to climate hazards. We offer causal evidence by leveraging geocoded variation in particulate matter dispersed along with a U.S panel survey.

Authors

• Guilherme Fasolin, Vanderbilt University

• James Bisbee, Vanderbilt University

• Sofia Berrospi, Vanderbilt University