Faster, harder, greener?
- Against the background of the current "Speed-Up Society," which seems to foster a trade-off between economic success and climate change, we study whether the individual Pace of Life is associated with productivity and proenvironmental behavior on the micro-level. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, we measured the productivity of participants in a real effort task, quantified their pro-environmental behavior, and recorded their individual Pace of Life. We find that individuals with a fast Pace of Life are significantly more productive. However, individuals with a fast Pace of Life behave less pro-environmentally if they are men and more pro-environmentally if they are women.
| Author details: | Christin HoffmannORCiDGND, Julia Amelie HoppeORCiD, Niklas ZiemannORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107212 |
| ISSN: | 0921-8009 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Ecological economics |
| Subtitle (English): | empirical evidence on the role of the individual Pace of Life for productivity and pro-environmental behavior |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/09/15 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Release date: | 2024/02/22 |
| Tag: | Charitable giving; Limits of growth; Pace of Life; Pro-environmental; Speed-Up Society; behavior |
| Volume: | 191 |
| Article number: | 107212 |
| Number of pages: | 14 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
