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- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Copyright
- © 2023 The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. All rights reserved.
- ISSN
- 2333-5955
- eISSN
- 2333-5963
- DOI
- 10.1086/722540
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This study investigates whether US senators are more likely to vote in favor of environmentally friendly legislation following damages caused by climate-related natural disasters. We combine senatorial scores of roll call votes on environmental legislation with modeled state-level human and economic natural disaster losses over a 44-year period. Our results show that support for environmental legislation increases in response to unusual human losses but does not respond to unusual economic losses. We also find that the documented response to natural disasters is two years and relatively short-lived. Geography, constituent partisanship, local economic conditions, and senatorial experience affect the magnitude and precision of the treatment effect.
Journal
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists – University of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2023