• DOI:10.1142/S2010007811000292
Corpus ID: 3686611

BUSINESS CYCLE EFFECTS ON CONCERN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CHILLING EFFECT OF RECESSION

@article{Kahn2011BUSINESSCE,
  title={BUSINESS CYCLE EFFECTS ON CONCERN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CHILLING EFFECT OF RECESSION},
  author={Matthew Kahn and Matthew J. Kotchen},
  journal={Climate Change Economics},
  year={2011},
  volume={02},
  pages={257-273}
}

• Matthew Kahn, Matthew J. Kotchen
• Published 2011
• Economics
• Climate Change Economics

This paper uses two different sources of data to investigate the association between the business cycle — measured with unemployment rates — and public concern about climate change. Building on recent research that finds internet search terms to be useful predictors of health epidemics and economic activity, we find that an increase in a state's unemployment rate decreases Google searches for "global warming" and increases searches for "unemployment," and that the effect differs according to a… Expand

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