I also recommend the Climate Solutions Lab’s excellent Syllabus Bank for climate politics & policy teaching resources: climate.watson.brown.edu/syllabus-bank

This article combines panel data + DiD + experiments to provide new causal evidence on how life experiences shape time horizons and climate policy support.

You can read it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I ran falsification tests to rule out alternative explanations (i.e., risk preferences, altruism).

Then I conducted two experiments: prompting people to think about their kids increased their future focus, which in turn boosted support for climate policy.

I analyze a 9,500-person panel surveyed 3 times over 6 years.

With a difference-in-differences + panel matching approach, I find:

→ New parents become more supportive of climate policy than their otherwise similar peers.

It’s challenging to study how time horizons affect policy views because how much we value the future isn’t randomly assigned.

I approach this issue by leveraging a personal life event that plausibly shifts future focus: becoming a parent.

This paper uses experimental data to test mechanisms behind an observational finding: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Uncertain Futures, written as the IRA was finalized, cautioned about the risks of policy reversal as the political pendulum swings

uncertainfuturesbook.com

Thanks!

Great paper on this: