Environmental Concern and the Business Cycle: The Chilling Effect of Recession

Matthew E. Kahn, Matthew J. Kotchen

NBER Working Paper No. 16241
Issued in July 2010

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We are grateful to Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale Project on Climate Change for generously sharing survey data used in Section 3 of this paper. We also thank Samantha Go and Aubrey Michi for valuable research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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