Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK

• Main Authors: Powdthavee, Nattavudh, Oswald, Andrew J., Lockwood, Ben
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences; Fertility; Child-bearing; Climate change; Environment; Green
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174571
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Do ‘green’ environmental concerns -- such as about biodiversity, climate change, pollution -- deter citizens from having children? This paper reports the first longitudinal evidence consistent with that increasingly discussed hypothesis. It follows through time a random sample of thousands of init...