{"id":87,"date":"2021-04-02T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/?p=87"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:42:48","slug":"pugno-sarracino-intrinsic-vs-extrinsic-motivation-to-protect-the-environment-correlational-and-causal-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Pugno &#038; Sarracino &#8211; Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation to protect the environment: correlational and causal evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Working paper 1\/2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Structural changes in economic growth and well-being. The case of Italy\u2019s parabola<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Maurizio Pugno<\/em><br>Universit\u00e0 di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale<br><br><em>Francesco Sarracino<\/em><br>Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques du Grand-Duch\u00e9 du Luxembourg<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding why many people spontaneously perform pro-environmental behaviours, rather than requiring some incentive, is an active area of research. To solve the puzzle, many studies address people\u2019s intrinsic motivation for this kind of behaviour. However, the term \u2018intrinsic\u2019 remains unclear, and thus also the solution of the puzzle. We contribute to this research by attaching intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to the pursuit of central goals in people\u2019s lives.<br>We take the prominent example of the motivations in looking for a job, and relate these motivations to pro-environmental attitudes and engagements. Using an international sample, we find that intrinsic motivation relates positively and extrinsic motivation relates negatively to a variety of subjective pro-environmental outcomes.This result holds for different sub-samples and for various econometric specifications and methodologies. In particular, two-stage least squares estimation with proper instruments provides evidence of a causal relationship between motivations and pro-environmental outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JEL codes: Q5, D91, Q53<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keywords: intrinsic motivation; extrinsic motivation; pro-environmental behaviours; multilevel model; instrumental variables; World Values Survey; European Values Study<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/files\/wp_202101.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working paper 1\/2021 Structural changes in economic growth and well-being. The case of Italy\u2019s parabola Maurizio PugnoUniversit\u00e0 di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale Francesco SarracinoInstitut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques du Grand-Duch\u00e9 du Luxembourg April 2021 Abstract: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/?p=87\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pugno &#038; Sarracino &#8211; Intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation to protect the environment: correlational and causal evidence<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,85,84,90],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wp_dipeeg","tag-environment","tag-francesco-sarracino","tag-maurizio-pugno","tag-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dipeg-wpe.unicas.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}