Climate Change and Individual Behavior

This paper studies the causal effect of providing information about climate change on individuals' willingness to pay offset CO2 emissions in a randomized control trial. Individuals that receive truthful aboutways reduce increase their for offsetting relative group within individual research design. receiving behavior peers react similarly those scientific research. Individuals' responses vary depending sociodemographic characteristics and also along rich set attitudes concerns regarding change. In follow up survey, we study endogenous acquisition survey participants show individuals choose aligns with prior beliefs. who have higher pay.